Sentence examples for backing up traffic from inspiring English sources

By mid-afternoon, police were asked to form a detour as a line of automobiles began backing up traffic from the Quintanillas' houses.

President Clinton was in town, and the police had shut the Triborough Bridge, backing up traffic for miles.

The bride and groom themselves were square in the middle of the road with the wedding party milling around them and backing up traffic in both directions.

While I was in Afghanistan, an oil tanker exploded on the road to Jalalabad, Nangarhar's capital, backing up traffic for hours.

Usually the crowds win, making it very difficult for cars to turn and backing up traffic for blocks on the side streets.

On the United States side, in El Paso, officials take pains to stop suspicious people, routinely backing up traffic a mile or more.

It backed up traffic for nine miles and took about two hours for traffic to just start moving again.

There was a protest where they threw tar and nails onto a highway and backed up traffic.

With so many people crossing, he said, cars must wait before turning onto the avenue, which backs up traffic.

Security has been stepped up across the city's checkpoints, where thorough searches have backed up traffic for hours in recent days.

The shooting set off a manhunt that backed up traffic for miles and prompted the lockdown of every public school in Broward County for several hours.