How to Use red-light in a Sentence

red-light

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of red-lightnext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Deep revitalization is a top priority, from body vibration and red-light therapies to cryotherapy and stem cell treatment.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Some in the community fear that red-light cameras will disproportionately affect people of color, among other concerns.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024
  • 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
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The credits scene ends with a red light turning off and a green light switching on.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Just imagine playing red light, green light in Call of Duty with some new twist.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024

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