Example sentences for: neon-lit

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

  • East Shinjuku is really two places: a daytime quarter of department stores, vertical malls, and discount stores, and a nighttime quarter of bars (straight and gay), cheap restaurants, strip joints, game parlors, jazz clubs, rooms-by-the-hour hotels, raves, and honky-tonks — most of the latter in a seedy, neon-lit neighborhood called Kabuki-cho.

  • Look out for the numerous “wedding chapels” along The Strip where you can get married in about 10 minutes for a flat $50 fee, “witnesses extra,” then spend your neon-lit honeymoon in the conveniently adjoining motel.

  • Over 90 percent of its land is uninhabited, contrasting with great centers of population, including the capital, Cairo, which is the largest city in Africa — a dusty, noisy, sprawling, neon-lit, crowded metropolis of more than fourteen million people.

  • The "facts" the tobacco industry avoids are laid out in snappy succession: A neon-lit night scene clustering around a Marlboro hoarding; a Joe Camel poster inviting viewers to "go ahead," assuring them that "it's on me"; shots of youngsters drawn to "eye-level displays" and "promotions that clearly appeal to kids."

  • In the first sequence, Cheung re-creates her character's nocturnal prowl in her own hotel, the camera coiling around her like a boa and hovering breathlessly over her shoulder as she snatches a necklace from another guest's room, then regards it on the rooftop in a cool neon-lit drizzle.


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