Sentence examples for were traffic from inspiring English sources
noun
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
- Traffic is slow at rush hour.
"There were traffic jams on the way to the track.
Gas station awnings were toppled, as were traffic signals, billboards and marquees.
MOSCOW — There were traffic jams, soaring housing costs and cries of nepotism.
Soon there were traffic lights flipping, doors tumbling, tatami mats spinning in the current.
Six people died in the explosion, the police official said; four were civilians and two were traffic police officers.
The only difficulties I encountered were traffic jams at airport approach roads, where police blockades typically funneled vehicles into a single lane for the once-over.
In "Water Gardens", our forebears are depicted as "Black-clad Victorians/... feeding the river with souls... Their miles of flooded graves/ Were traffic jams of stone".
Police and fire officials in South Florida, which was hardest hit, said the biggest problems were traffic congestion and people trapped in elevators.
Nearby, the road was being rebuilt and there were traffic lights and growling lorries: we cut away across country, following any path we could find.
For Google, the payments were "traffic acquisition costs" (TAC) - what a search engine has to pay to get traffic to its site.
In 2001 the French were traffic-accident champions, killing over 8,000 people on the roads.
