house lights
Example Sentences
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In “Love,” for example, the house lights remain on and the actors portraying the people at the shelter often sit amid or walk around audience members, as if to say they are us and we are them, separated only by circumstance.
From New York Times
At night, she and her family only use headlamps so as to not attract the attention of Russian troops by turning on the house lights.
From Seattle Times
"The house lights going dark, the roar of the crowd and the opening song pumping through the PA. I think we’ve all missed being connected through live music!"
From Fox News
“The house lights going dark, the roar of the crowd and the opening song pumping through the PA. I think we’ve all missed being connected through live music!”
From Seattle Times
The next came when the house lights were turned down, and phone flashlights turned on, for the national anthem: Everyone in the standing-room crowd of 12,636 seemed to accompany the singer, as if they were limbering up their voice boxes.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
