How to Use streetlight in a Sentence

streetlight

noun
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  • Holt ran by the faint glimmer of streetlights and the glow from his watch.
    — Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • Like bugs to a streetlight, they’re drawn in from far off paths.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Henry turns back to him, his eyes silver in the wash of the streetlight.
    — Town & Country, 12 Aug. 2023
  • They were lit only by the faint glow of one streetlight.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Check out the video below to take a closer look at the streetlights.
    — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 16 Nov. 2016
  • The streetlight turned on, and the mangoes got sweeter and sweeter in their box.
    — Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • One crater, Louis recalled, opened up next to a streetlight.
    — NBC News, 20 July 2021
  • The flames had somehow lodged someone's garage door on top of a streetlight.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Three streetlights with wires hanging out of them were near the parking lot, and none of the lights in the lot were working.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Nickerson said the street lamps and streetlights were rattling in the wind.
    — Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • In the suburbs, flags and banners hang from streetlights throughout the year.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 18 May 2020
  • By night, their street is pitch dark and empty, because the streetlights haven’t worked in months.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • The streetlights don’t work, even in the governmental center of the city.
    — Karan Mahajan, The New Republic, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Turn off your porch lights, get away streetlights and find your dark, happy space.
    — Blaine Friedlander, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The streetlights are on and the only movement is from the rare car or fellow-zombie.
    — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The stuffed, life-size dolls were seen on the sides of roads, behind dumpsters and leaning on streetlight poles.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Banners will go up soon on the streetlight poles in front of the church announcing the milestone.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Many flit around the larger members like moths around a streetlight.
    — Richard Talcott, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2020
  • Riveros said the city hopes to fill the vacant streetlight crew positions.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And up ahead of us, there were these gorgeous amber eyes that were glowing in the streetlight.
    — National Geographic, 23 June 2020
  • The footage, which is obscured by the glare of a streetlight, shows a light-colored sedan with its lights off next to the parking lot of a high school.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The impact caused the overhead streetlight to shower sparks.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 7 May 2018
  • On the streets people carry on as normal, even at night when all the streetlights are turned off.
    — Marianne Lehnis, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • There is some sidewalk and streetlight construction left to do on the bridge.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The wiring has been taken from streetlights on ramps to and from the Beltway at Eastern Avenue.
    — Alison Knezevich, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
  • Sellers said work will begin in March to replace the streetlights and is expected to be done by the end of the year.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The playground equipment at the nearby park hasn’t been updated in a long time and the streetlight hasn’t worked for a while.
    — Anna Beahm | Abeahm@al.com, al, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The Tesla then veered off the road, crashed through a streetlight and became airborne after striking a curb on the north side of the road.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
  • Park staff removed 13 streetlights and switched many bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LED).
    — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 2 July 2018
  • Lights attached to gimbals on the outside can even act like streetlights, breaking up the darkness of the fortnight night and keeping the first human settlers safe from getting mugged by aliens.
    — New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2024

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