light out

Example Sentences

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Well, that is the question, and you do wonder why these kids don’t just light out for Portland.

From Los Angeles Times

It was still light out, for Saint Petersburg is so far north on the globe that on the longest days of the year the sun sets only briefly and it never gets dark at all.

From Literature

You Dean Mears took the light out of my life.

From BBC

"If I was back in the office at 8:30 at night, he'd be like: 'What are you doing here? It's still light out. Go knock on some more doors.'"

From Salon

But it’s also standard practice to grant pilots permission to land later than that as long as it’s still light out, he said.

From Los Angeles Times