Sentence examples for traffic standing from inspiring English sources

Life is a procession of "frustrations and irritations" — waiting in traffic, standing in line, filling out forms.

First, there was the traffic standing in the way.

"In other areas, we have to deal with road pollution, traffic and standing water".

"It said that he blocked vehicular traffic by standing on the sidewalk," Mr. Stolar said, drawing chuckles from supporters.

I didn't have my glasses handy, so I handed it to a traffic officer standing next to me.

A traffic policeman standing at the edge of the square, Sarhan Thiab, saw that a young man in a car had been hit.

In the city, protests gradually swelled as groups for blocks around the house burned tires in intersections and snarled traffic by standing or marching in the road.

The piece features a large chorus, a huge percussion battery and a prominent piano part, and is so unwieldy that two conductors usually lead different sections, like multiple traffic wardens standing at a particularly dangerous intersection.

Stop!" I soon realized it was the voice of a traffic cop standing at the northeast corner of 42nd Street, trying to alert pedestrians of vehicles turning north onto Eighth Avenue.

A genial traffic cop, standing on a pedestal in the Piazza Venezia, introduces the characters: the opera director and his wife; a newlywed couple from the provinces (Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandra Mastronardi) just arriving in Rome; a well-known American architect (Alec Baldwin) on vacation; an ordinary middle-class Roman (Roberto Benigni) living with his family.

On that occasion, 43 senior citizens who stopped traffic by standing or sitting in the middle of a downtown street were escorted by police officers off the street without being handcuffed, and were merely issued citations to appear in the department of administrative hearings.