Very lights
Example Sentences
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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost immediately red Very lights went up within a stone's-throw as it seemed to me.
From Pushed and the Return Push by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
No lights could be shown, they did not even dare use "Very lights," as our "star-lights" are known.
From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride
The sudden turning of darkness into day by enemy Very lights imposed instantaneous immobility.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Victor Lefebure
