lights out

Example Sentences

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“In the next four or eight weeks, it could be lights out,” said Jorge Piñón, an expert on Cuban energy at the University of Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Lights out in fifteen,” Manny, a staff person with multiple earrings and tight black jeans, tells me when I ask to borrow tape.

From Literature

It could be a long, slow descent with the lights out on an RAF jet, or a rapid, corkscrew down in a C-130 transport plane.

From BBC

Hart said he was on a plane home to California every Saturday night: “I leave here at 11:30, and by 2 o’clock it’s lights out.”

From Los Angeles Times

So Musselman grabbed the gym’s keys, turned the lights out and locked the doors.

From Los Angeles Times