Examples from literature

• At every crossroad he stopped and read an order. 
• Eventually we came back to the crossroad, and with a feeling of having been successful, I continued South with a confidence that I had not felt before. 
• Fifty yards ahead was a crossroad. 
• The street, dimly lighted by a couple of oil lamps swinging from gibbets at the corners of a crossroad, seemed to be peopled by shadows surreptitiously lurking in doorways. 
• We crept out of the city, but unfortunately at one of the dangerous crossroads our chauffeur mistook the route.