Sentence examples for traffic stood from inspiring English sources

Fifteen years ago it was a byword for foul air, a city where the traffic stood still and anyone tempted to resort to a tuk-tuk, the local version of the Indian open-sided auto-rickshaw, risked asphyxiation.

The demonstration made for a dramatic scene as traffic stood still on the usually busy street.

Problem was, several miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic stood between me and where I wanted to be.

With thirty seconds left in the game and with the road team up by four goals, the Senators faithful who had fought the urge to beat traffic stood up and applauded.

Now his record daily traffic stands at 36,000.

Only a few traffic policemen stood along the funeral route.

Across the street, in the middle of a busy traffic roundabout, stood a sixty-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ.

Before us, in the middle of a busy traffic roundabout, stood a new structure that oma had built in less than a week: a circus tent.

Even as traffic got thicker and the racket grew louder -- "It is horrendous out there!" a taxi driver screamed from his window -- Officer Williams and his crew of traffic police stood their ground.

Impeding impatient pedestrian traffic, I stood there puzzled until I realized what had made me look back: the Workers University used to house a movie theatre (it had shut down a couple of years before the war), and whenever I'd walked by in those days I'd stopped to look at the display cases where the movie posters and showtimes were exhibited.

When I wasn't on my feet arguing the finite points of my client's case or zigzagging between traffic, I stood on the courthouse steps to return phone calls.