Examples of green light in a Sentence
we were given the green light to use the town commons for our fund-raiser
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Almost 11 years ago, on April 2, 2015, Netflix announced a series green light to Montauk, a supernatural drama series written and directed by young genre filmmakers Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer and executive produced by Shawn Levy, to debut in 2016.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
Even Kerr had to wonder where Curry would rank if he had been given such a green light early in his career.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
The Ranger was northbound on MO-291 with a green light, the release said.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 31 Dec. 2025
So much depends on Williams’s red wheelbarrow, Fitzgerald’s green light at the end of the pier, Melville’s mighty white whale, Kafka’s monstrous vermin, but what exactly?
—Literary Hub, 23 Dec. 2025
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
Even Kerr had to wonder where Curry would rank if he had been given such a green light early in his career.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025
The Ranger was northbound on MO-291 with a green light, the release said.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 31 Dec. 2025
So much depends on Williams’s red wheelbarrow, Fitzgerald’s green light at the end of the pier, Melville’s mighty white whale, Kafka’s monstrous vermin, but what exactly?
—Literary Hub, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Green light.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/green%20light. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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