How to Use lights-out in a Sentence

lights-out

noun

• The days when the offense looks the most anemic are the same days when the pitching is lights-out.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 28 May 2024
• The Gators were lights-out in the second half against the Terrapins.
  — Chris Branch, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• He’s also been lights-out in a relief role with five saves and a 0.47 ERA.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
• With a big helping hand from Shohei Ohtani and a lights-out bullpen, that’s exactly what the Dodgers did.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• No matter who he’s played with, Doughty has been lights-out with a 73 percent xG rate.
  — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
• Forget that third gear: This was pedal-to-the-metal, lights-out tennis.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 8 June 2025
• He’s also learned a big lesson for succeeding on grass, which is to hit a lights-out serve.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 July 2025
• Maryland was lights-out the first half of the season, ranked as high as No. 7 by The Associated Press thanks to a 14-0 start.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025
• Thompson’s lights-out performance wasn’t even the highlight of his night.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2024
• Florida came out shooting lights-out from the beginning of the game.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• Does Burrow have one more lights-out performance in him?
  — The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
• The most exciting part of the Singapore Grand Prix was the start—that lights-out moment when anything can happen.
  — Rob Reed, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• After some miscues earlier in the game, Jackson was lights-out on the Ravens’ final drive.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
• Arizona State scored 35 unanswered points in the program's lights-out victory against ISU.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
• The Giants’ ace was lights-out, putting whatever ailed him this spring in the rearview mirror while retiring the Padres in order their first time through the lineup.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024
• Hart finished the year at 33% from deep — 34% on wide-open attempts — with shooting nights to close the regular season that swung between lights-out and lid-on.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
• Since his rough patch ended two months ago, he’s been lights-out, allowing only one earned run over his past 21 innings.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
• Halladay was lights-out the rest of the way, allowing only four more hits in finishing eight innings.
  — Tim Britton, New York Times, 30 May 2025
• Red Sox relievers have been lights-out of late, combining for 19.2 scoreless innings over their last six games.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025
• Sexton has developed into a lights-out shooter and works hard on defense.
  — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 26 June 2025
• The Mustangs were propelled to victory by a near lights-out performance on the mound by junior pitcher Preston Rau.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• The Thunder have been lights-out from a drafting and player-development standpoint in recent years.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
• Driving the news: Detroit kept Cleveland scoreless with lights-out pitching and clutch defensive plays.
  — Joe Guillen, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
• To protect the drawings, Ms. D’Agostino said, visits will be kept to groups of four and limited to 15 minutes, with 45 minute lights-out periods in between to protect the drawings.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Just some consistent Dodgers offense, coupled with more dominance from a lights-out pitching staff.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• That spoiled a lights-out stretch defensively, wherein IU held Miami without a field goal over a seven-minute stretch and without a point for six minutes.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2023
• Our defense has been playing lights-out all season.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
• The Phillies had a strong rotation, a lights-out closer, and a lineup that had a good balance of power and on-base threat.
  — Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
• By the time lights-out finally comes, the exhausted patient conks out hard.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• The sketch wasn’t lights-out amazing, but the switcheroo was interesting.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025