How to Use red-light in a Sentence

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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
• The city plans to place up to 19 speed or red-light cameras at high accident locations.
  — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Shop the best at-home red-light therapy devices What is LED light therapy?
  — Amy Wilkinson, SELF, 5 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Much as happens with Orlando’s red-light cameras, those caught would receive a ticket in the mail with a link to a recording of their offense.
  — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 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
• Each guest room features private patios, plunge pools, cozy fire pits and spa suites with state-of-the-art amenities like soaking tubs and red-light therapy.
  — Caroline Tell, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
• Sandwiched between high-shine mega-malls and the pricey Tanglin district, it's long felt a bit sleepy, with a smattering of karaoke lounges and red-light massage parlors.
  — Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Before then, the neighborhood was primarily a red-light district with a handful of pubs and hostels catering to backpackers.
  — Maryam Jillani, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2024
• This feud was definitely one of WWE's best this year, but some wind was knocked out of it after their weird Summerslam match, and while the following strap match was good, playing red-light green-light didn't exactly heat things up.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
• The Dutch capital has tightened rules on smoking weed, especially in its red-light district, and banned new hotels from being built earlier this year.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 4 July 2024
• Here, your options range from a relaxing therapeutic massage, which melted my stress away and left me smelling like fresh air, to a red-light therapy sauna experience.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Sawaya says studies have shown red-light therapy can benefit the skin, but seeing results depends on using the devices regularly.
  — Erica Sweeney, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
• 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

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• 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
• His stage was drenched in red light and full of dancers on the steps in front of him.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2025
• Drivers can’t run a red light or speed to beat the light.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023
• The truck went through a red light and struck the Nissan on the driver’s side.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2022
• 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 car reached a speed of 120 mph and went through a red light at Eastland Road.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2021
• 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
• Clark ran about 50 feet toward a car stopped at a red light.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 28 May 2021
• 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
• The caller stated that the car ran a red light and almost struck a pole.
  — cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
• 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
• She was stopped at a red light and the motorist behind her leaned hard on his horn.
  — Cindy Carcamo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The girl was driving a black Ford pickup truck south in the 500 block of Lake Shore Drive when the truck stopped at a red light.
  — Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2021
• Balde, 24, was traveling through a steady red light, police said.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
• The film was shot in color on 35mm but desaturated using filters that discard yellow, orange and red light.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025