How to Use klieg light in a Sentence

klieg light

noun

• To stand and poke your finger in the klieg light’s eye and demand it.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
• There is a photo of a young, crew-cut boxer about to start his walk down the dark alley to the klieg lights of the ring.
  — Gordon Marino, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2018
• Matters only get worse when the searching klieg light of fame lands not on Devin but on poor Addison.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
• During the concert scenes — which amount to only about 15% of the film — only a klieg light separates Dylan from the stark black backdrop of each venue.
  — Eric Harvey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• As the wedding approached, British newspapers swung the klieg lights of their attention to Markle’s estranged half siblings, who said scathing things about a bride whom few Britons knew.
  — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
• As the wedding approached, British newspapers swung the klieg lights of their attention to Ms. Markle’s estranged half siblings, who said scathing things about a bride whom few Britons knew.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 19 May 2018
• If anyone should be the breakout star for their turn in Beyoncé’s klieg light, it’s Honey Dijon.
  — August Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• After the Nationals committed $210 million over seven years to Max Scherzer, Strasburg found a spot out of the klieg lights.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
• In that era, that scene served as a quasi-moral counterweight — sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit — to the mainstream wing of the genre, just then arriving into the pop klieg lights.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
• The play, in development since 2016, shrewdly turns a klieg light on our souls, searching every corner of us to expose our beliefs and our biases - not so much to the world but to ourselves.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Municipal leaders are ready to shut off the city's bat-signal klieg lights and rely instead on the crime-fighting services of a private security force called the Crows.
  — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2019
• Municipal leaders are ready to shut off the city’s bat-signal klieg lights and rely instead on the crime-fighting services of a private security force called the Crows.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• Across a series of penetrating essays, Eberstadt endeavors to shine a klieg light on the feral scenes of the present, and on the ideological extremism of our times.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 2 Mar. 2023
• Pierini is arguably one of B Street’s most versatile and talented players, a veritable Swiss Army knife under klieg lights who can write, direct and act.
  — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 23 May 2018
• Under the klieg lights, his anti-Chevron fervor mysteriously evaporated.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 21 Mar. 2017

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