How to Use red-light in a Sentence

red-light

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• Unpaid speeding and red-light tickets are more pricey than tolls and so is the theft.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Leon Valley is poised to become the last city in Texas with red-light cameras.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Is the motorist just dressing up the plate, or trying to elude tolls and red-light camera fines?
  — Jim Radcliffe, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
• The length of the red light was subsequently shortened, meaning no more red-light chats about the union drive.
  — Curbed, 19 July 2023
• And for more high-tech home treatments, check out our picks of best LED face mask and red-light therapy devices.
  — Kylie Gilbert, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2024
• The first, hour-long episode was kinky yet empty, like a visit to a red-light district during the pandemic.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 June 2023
• Just give your eyes 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness, and bring a red-light flashlight to keep your eyes adjusted throughout the night.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• The lamp has seven different lighting modes including a red-light beam which is great for night hikes.
  — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2024
• Tony Kranz, who was a council member at the time and has since been elected mayor, has long supported the red-light camera program.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• And orange-red neon smolders within and blinks above bars and red-light districts everywhere.
  — Ella Quittner, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Henry eventually opened two bordellos on Sixth Street, the heart of St. Louis’ red-light district.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• The city has also long tried to control the crowds in its red-light district, where rowdy groups of tourists often cause disruptions to local residents.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• One video involves a red-light runner and the other requires the vehicle to react to an encroaching vehicle in a turn lane.
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The eight coups d’état that have rocked Africa’s Sahel region since 2020 are a flashing, red-light warning: Washington’s efforts to stabilize the region have failed.
  — Joseph Sany, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024
• This TikTok favorite uses red-light therapy to improve skin’s tone and texture.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• The wait continues on a judge’s decision on whether the red-light cameras at Route 83 and 22nd Street in Oakbrook Terrace will be allowed to remain activated or be removed.
  — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2023
• As outlined, other restrictions are also set to be introduced in the red-light district, such as lockout rules, alcohol sale restrictions, and banning smoking on the street.
  — Jessie Gretener, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
• Oakbrook Terrace was authorized to reactivate the red-light cameras, pending the final disposition of the case, which was continued in December 2022 to May.
  — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2023
• Grab your binoculars, picnic blankets, and red-light flashlights: here are the best astronomical attractions for August 2023.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
• Cincinnati voters in 2008 passed a charter amendment that severely restricts the use of red-light cameras, but Councilman Jeff Cramerding proposed undoing the ban in a charter amendment that would have been put to voters in November.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2023
• Hobbs vetoed the ban in 2023 because red-light cameras allow law enforcement to allocate resources efficiently, according to a veto letter.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 Jan. 2024
• Even before it was made legal, prostitution was associated with the red-light district for hundreds of years because of its original proximity to the port of Amsterdam.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• Longtime Democratic operative Patrick Doherty was sentenced Wednesday to more than five years in federal prison for a wide range of corruption schemes stemming from a sprawling federal bribery investigation involving red-light cameras.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
• Metro’s regulator, the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, has often cited the agency for having too many train operators running past red-light signals, overshooting platforms or moving without permission when trains were ordered to halt.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2023

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red light

2 of 2 noun

• Leahy left the scene and stopped at the next red light.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2022
• The red light bled its liquid glow and rinsed the thought away.
  — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Drivers can’t run a red light or speed to beat the light.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
• At one point, Gill ran a red light and drove on the shoulder.
  — Fox News, 13 May 2022
• When a car speeds through a red light, there’s a camera.
  — Curbed, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Nike emblem of the shoes glowed in the camera’s infra-red light.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022
• The child was in the car with her aunt and mother, stopped at a red light, when shots rang out.
  — Jozsef Papp, ajc, 18 Aug. 2022
• The red light is also soothing and not as stark as a white light.
  — Kelsey Kunik, Parents, 12 Dec. 2023
• It’s like the gamma ray emerging from a box of red light.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2022
• Five green lights show the remaining charge, and the three red lights show the boost level.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Check out our guides to the best at-home red light therapy tools and the best gua sha tools.
  — Catharine Malzahn, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2023
• Seeing if the car truly would just blaze through a red light?
  — Christopher Cox, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• And watch out for scofflaws who speed, run red lights or tailgate.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2024
• At the top of the exit ramp, McCauley ran a red light and struck a Honda Civic.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• Each player grabs a trigger from the base, then waits for a red light to turn green.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2022
• The officer said that when Nichols pulled up to a red light, the officers jumped out of the car.
  — Adrian Sainz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
• The minivan was stopped at a red light when it was struck, Houseman said.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
• His wife rushed him to the hospital at 1 a.m., running a red light along the way.
  — Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• His friend fled the scene in a vehicle, ran a red light, and killed two cyclists.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Stop at red lights and go at green lights, avoid drowning and don’t play with fire. . .
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Trump would run red lights, stomping on the gas and leaving other cars in the dust.
  — William Earl, Variety, 18 June 2024
• Stairs up to the stage were lined with red lights and balloons waited in nets to be dropped from the ceiling.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2024
• When the battery, which lasts for up to 45 minutes, runs low, a red light flashes on the screen.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 15 June 2024
• Sohn ran a red light, drove against the flow of traffic and turned off his siren while pursuing the boy.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
• In this zoomed-in image the Sunrise Arc is the curve of red light cutting through the center.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• The Tahoe was then seen straddling the road’s yellow lines, and next driving through a red light.
  — cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
• Too much is at stake to put the red light on projects in a bid to secure a specific bloc of votes.
  — Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
• At the traffic light, Vincent saw a car approach at high speed and run a red light.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• This product utilizes red light to promote hair growth with consistent, once-a-day use over six to eight months.
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 6 Sep. 2024
• The at-fault vehicle ran a red light while traveling westbound through the intersection, striking Mares' vehicle.
  — Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024