Crosswalk is an English word with synonyms like crossing or crossover. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Crosswalk meaning
- A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street.
- A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
Using Crosswalk
- The main meaning on this page is: A point designated for pedestrians to cross a street. | A mapping between equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
- Useful related words include: crossing, crossover, path.
- In the example corpus, crosswalk often appears in combinations such as: the crosswalk, in crosswalk, crosswalk at.
Context around Crosswalk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crosswalk
- In this selection, "crosswalk" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, marked, new, rainbow, community, signs and near stand out and add context to how "crosswalk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include on a crosswalk and a connecticut crosswalk community organization. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crosswalk" sits close to words such as allspring, aloft and asparagus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crosswalk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The closest crosswalk is two blocks away. (7 words)
Without crosswalk removals, it would be about $1,500 less. (10 words)
To use the crosswalk or to jaywalk — that is the question. (11 words)
Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall stop to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk. (42 words)
The poor people in the crosswalk – the guy in the tank top striding indifferently forward; the mother yanking at her child’s hand – had no idea of the danger they were in with me behind the wheel! (37 words)
In the first incident, at about 3:50 a.m., a 71-year-old man was killed after he was struck by an SUV while crossing a street — outside of a marked crosswalk, police said — in Henderson. (37 words)
The poor people in the crosswalk – the guy in the tank top striding indifferently forward; the mother yanking at her child’s hand – had no idea of the danger they were in with me behind the wheel! (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall stop to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk.
A Connecticut crosswalk community organization has installed new crosswalk signs in Hartford.
According to the report, the woman went into the crosswalk "on a green light and a 'walk' pedestrian signal," but had not finished crossing when the light changed.
Another pedestrian was killed hours earlier in a crosswalk on Montgomery and Pennsylvania NE, reportedly while crossing against the signal.
A witness said a person was walking in the middle of road, not on a crosswalk.
He also said that the student, whose identity has not been released, did the right thing by using the crosswalk.
If you’re blocking a crosswalk or parking on a sidewalk or jamming up a bike lane, yes, you’ll have to pay a fine.
Kandula, a graduate student at Seattle’s Northeastern University, was killed in January when another officer responding to an overdose call in the South Lake Union neighborhood drove into her as she walked on a crosswalk.
One of the stations was an obstacle course, which included a crosswalk and roundabouts.
She then walked two and a half blocks north to cross at the nearest signaled crosswalk at Ashley River Road.
Statt said the vandalism of the rainbow crosswalk might not have been a statement of racism or homophobia.
The closest crosswalk is two blocks away.
The new crosswalk at Military Road and Bannerman Road requires some on-street parking changes.
The poor people in the crosswalk – the guy in the tank top striding indifferently forward; the mother yanking at her child’s hand – had no idea of the danger they were in with me behind the wheel!
This Tuesday, a rainbow crosswalk near Bayside Middle School in Brentwood Bay, Central Saanich, was found defaced with homophobic slurs scrawled by vandals.
To use the crosswalk or to jaywalk — that is the question.
Video emerged Friday of an early-morning street fight between two men — one armed with a knife — in the middle of a crosswalk in New York City.
Without crosswalk removals, it would be about $1,500 less.
A pedestrian was crossing over Desert Inn Road, west of Fort Apache Road, from north to south, outside a marked or implied crosswalk.
In the first incident, at about 3:50 a.m., a 71-year-old man was killed after he was struck by an SUV while crossing a street — outside of a marked crosswalk, police said — in Henderson.
Common combinations with crosswalk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the crosswalk 42×
- in crosswalk 16×
- crosswalk at 8×
- marked crosswalk 7×
- crosswalk in 6×
- crosswalk or 5×
- crosswalk on 5×
- crosswalk and 5×
- pedestrian crosswalk 5×
- new crosswalk 4×