crossroads

When they came to a crossroads where the road split off into four cardinal directions, Stanton stood squinting up at the signpost for a long time.

The shiny wet black triangle at the crossroads of where her legs split.

Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.

But first he stopped his car at the crossroads where the highway forked off to Gastmann's house.