Example sentences for: lights

How can you use “lights” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At 11pm, all the houses in town switch on all their lights, opening all the doors and windows, setting the hillside ablaze in light.

  • 1992: "On Broadway, the Lights Get Brighter."

  • Writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as the poets that hung round Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore, advocated a free and unstructured style of writing, exemplified by Jack Kerouac’s cult novel On the Road.

  • Wieseltier's 1995 essay on "the decline of the black intellectual" wasn't really the "devastating critique" of West's work that Weisberg once took it to be, and it's relatively good to hear that although Weisberg had hitherto set his lights by it, he no longer agrees with Wieseltier's conclusion that West's work is "almost entirely worthless."

  • City Lights (261 Columbus Avenue; open daily until midnight) opened in 1953 and was America’s first paperback bookshop.


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