double yellow line
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The person who parked their car on the double yellow line may be a doctor who has been called urgently to the house of a critically ill patient ..."
- "I'm sorry, you were parking on a double yellow line, you've got a ticket."
- "He knew it would be risky parking on a double yellow line, or even a single yellow line, at this hour, but in a side street off the back of Kensington Church Street he found areas demarcated on the roadway with white lines."
- "When he reached the street Claber and the girl were crossing the road to a Mercedes coupé, parked on a double yellow line."
- "The photo on pages 22 and 23 of your February issue shows the driver of a Chevy Beretta topping a hill and rounding a curve on the wrong side of a double yellow line."
- "Police officer: Well, for one thing, you went over a double yellow line back there to pass a car."
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
double red line
single yellow line
Frequently Paired Words
double red line
single yellow line