The word "stoplight" is correct and usable in written English
You would use it to refer to a traffic light that you see while driving. Example sentence: I could see the red stoplight up ahead and knew I needed to stop my car.
They have become solidly reliable, and new designs largely eliminate "turbo lag", the frustrating pause when a driver stomped the throttle as the stoplight turned green.The next big breakthrough could be the electric turbo, which no longer relies on exhaust gases to start spinning, but instead uses an electric motor that depends on recaptured energy, much like a hybrid's electric motor.
In our self-driving future, not only would traffic jams become a thing of the past, every stoplight would also be green.
Even months into owning the car, many Roadster drivers still take off at every stoplight, peeling rubber like teen-agers.
Soon, Lyga was at another stoplight, and the S.U.V. started to pull up beside him on the left.
A blinking red stoplight on Main Street is the town's only traffic signal.
I glance at the stoplight, which is still red.
Kevin and Crystal O'Connor The villains: The father-and-daughter owners of Memories Pizza, a small pizzeria in the one-stoplight town of Walkerton, Ind.
As a special treat, I take the long way, out Route 116, an untrafficked rural byway connecting one-stoplight towns like Snead to no-stoplight towns like Bugleville.
For sure, Miuccia Prada felt a frisson of gratitude when Ms. Dockery swept onto the crimson runner in a stoplight-red gown that Ms. Prada had whipped up for the evening.
(Cheers to him, but it took until 2013?) Our ultimate destination was Glacier National Park, but we took a detour through Great Falls to my birthplace: Conrad, a one-stoplight prairie town near the Canadian border.
Though there were no official counts, the sheriff's office estimated that 13,000 people attended Friday's preview and 15,000 made it to Ray Lambrecht's farm Saturday for the first of two days of bidding (after enduring an unlikely four-mile traffic jam through this no-stoplight town).
