How to Use red-light in a Sentence

red-light

1 of 2 adjective
  • 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
  • How many of us have learned a lesson the hard way when we’ve been cited by a speed or red-light camera?
    Steve Cohen, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
  • 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
  • That’s not to mention doing away with red-light cameras for those who ignore red lights.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Magnesium mocktails, red-light lamps, white-noise playlists, silk eye masks, mouth tape.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • To clamp down on speeding drivers and red-light runners, Phoenix plans to bring traffic cameras back to the city after six years.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
  • 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
  • Use a red-light flashlight or headlamp—or cover your white light in red cellophane—to preserve your night vision in the field.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • In This Story: Does red-light therapy actually help with hair loss?
    Kristine Thomason, Vogue, 26 May 2025
  • Red light therapy is not new, but many red-light products on the market either overpromise results or lack proper guidance.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • 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
  • The hotel also rents an array of gadgets and gizmos: Game Boys, virtual-reality gizmos, iPads, and even red-light masks.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 4 Apr. 2025
  • 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

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
  • 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
  • But then the driver hit the gas, ran a red light and jumped back on the highway.
    Teri Figueroa, Mercury News, 21 July 2025
  • In that split second—from out of nowhere—a car ran the red light at 80 mph.
    Spencer McFadden Hoge and Cynthia McFadden, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The cars proceeded to the next red light, where the man again yelled at the woman.
    cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Drivers stop at a red light and look up to admire the view.
    New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • At the red light, Quintana said the man got out of his car to confront her.
    Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • When Lopez and her boyfriend approached a red light, the Howells drove in front of them.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • That’s when the red light started flashing in Boyd’s mind.
    Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 10 Jan. 2021
  • The Equinox and Fusion were both stopped at the red light in the curb lane at Airport Road when they were hit.
    Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Cargill fled, running a red light and traveling through a neighborhood at a high speed, according to the release.
    Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2025

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