How to Use lights-out in a Sentence

lights-out

noun

• The days when the offense looks the most anemic are the same days when the pitching is lights-out.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 28 May 2024
• With a big helping hand from Shohei Ohtani and a lights-out bullpen, that’s exactly what the Dodgers did.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Thompson’s lights-out performance wasn’t even the highlight of his night.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2024
• Florida came out shooting lights-out from the beginning of the game.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• Does Burrow have one more lights-out performance in him?
  — The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
• The most exciting part of the Singapore Grand Prix was the start—that lights-out moment when anything can happen.
  — Rob Reed, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• After some miscues earlier in the game, Jackson was lights-out on the Ravens’ final drive.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
• Arizona State scored 35 unanswered points in the program's lights-out victory against ISU.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
• The Giants’ ace was lights-out, putting whatever ailed him this spring in the rearview mirror while retiring the Padres in order their first time through the lineup.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Since his rough patch ended two months ago, he’s been lights-out, allowing only one earned run over his past 21 innings.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
• The Mustangs were propelled to victory by a near lights-out performance on the mound by junior pitcher Preston Rau.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• Driving the news: Detroit kept Cleveland scoreless with lights-out pitching and clutch defensive plays.
  — Joe Guillen, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
• To protect the drawings, Ms. D’Agostino said, visits will be kept to groups of four and limited to 15 minutes, with 45 minute lights-out periods in between to protect the drawings.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Just some consistent Dodgers offense, coupled with more dominance from a lights-out pitching staff.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• That spoiled a lights-out stretch defensively, wherein IU held Miami without a field goal over a seven-minute stretch and without a point for six minutes.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2023
• Wisconsin's defense is playing lights-out in winning streak.
  — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2024
• That is where workouts can help, such as the ones that have been ongoing for the Heat at Kaseya Center, not necessarily to witness lights-out shooting, but to see if the mechanics are there.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• Flacco was lights-out in a handful of starts for Cleveland a year ago, and the veteran played well in three appearances for Indianapolis earlier this season.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
• One player certain to stay in Flushing is lights-out reliever Edwin Diaz, whose five-year, $102 million deal is the richest ever given to a closer.
  — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• But here’s the truth: Time management and empathy (or any other set of soft skills for that matter) won’t deliver a lights-out interview performance.
  — Pamela Skillings, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
• The marquee matchup pits the Wolverines’ lights-out defense, statistically the stingiest in the nation, against the high-powered Huskies’ aerial attack, the most productive passing game in the Bowl Subdivision putting up 350 yards a game.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
• Another lights-out closer worth considering in a trade would be the Cardinals’ Ryan Helsley.
  — Paul Bledsoe, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2024
• But, Simon said, there also is the human nature of living in the moment and getting to take in such moments such as lights-out shooting performances or players arriving with skill sets exceeding what was shown on tape.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 June 2024
• While Kevin Lankinen has been sturdy, Vancouver hasn’t often benefitted from lights-out goaltending when Lankinen has had a night off.
  — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 7 Feb. 2025
• Even the most industrial of industrial robots, the lights-out manufacturing sorts of things that may never see a human while operating unless something is (or is about to be) very very wrong, still have to be set up and programmed by a human.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• Indeed, Kobe Bryant could have related, the Lakers legend authoring several highlight shows that nevertheless ended in lights-out defeat.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Japanese manufacturer Fanuc, for instance, uses robots working in lights-out factories to make new robots.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 5 July 2024
• The system uses autonomous drones for nightly, lights-out inventory scans, identifying discrepancies and improving workflow efficiency.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2025