How to Use lights-out in a Sentence

lights-out

noun
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  • 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
  • Japanese manufacturer Fanuc, for instance, uses robots working in lights-out factories to make new robots.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That is where workouts can help, such as the ones that have been ongoing for the Heat at Kaseya Center, not necessarily to witness lights-out shooting, but to see if the mechanics are there.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • One player certain to stay in Flushing is lights-out reliever Edwin Diaz, whose five-year, $102 million deal is the richest ever given to a closer.
    — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The marquee matchup pits the Wolverines’ lights-out defense, statistically the stingiest in the nation, against the high-powered Huskies’ aerial attack, the most productive passing game in the Bowl Subdivision putting up 350 yards a game.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Another lights-out closer worth considering in a trade would be the Cardinals’ Ryan Helsley.
    — Paul Bledsoe, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2024
  • But, Simon said, there also is the human nature of living in the moment and getting to take in such moments such as lights-out shooting performances or players arriving with skill sets exceeding what was shown on tape.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 19 June 2024
  • Even the most industrial of industrial robots, the lights-out manufacturing sorts of things that may never see a human while operating unless something is (or is about to be) very very wrong, still have to be set up and programmed by a human.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Indeed, Kobe Bryant could have related, the Lakers legend authoring several highlight shows that nevertheless ended in lights-out defeat.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023

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