How to Use streetlight in a Sentence

streetlight

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Artificial light sources could be a streetlight or a light in a house some distance away.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• The one-minute preview also features new clips of Gaga and the Napoleon actor kissing in a burning room, sharing cigarette smoke through jail cell bars and waltzing under streetlights.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024