lights out

Example Sentences

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"It means we can potentially design drugs that target the parasite's ARK1 specifically, turning the lights out on malaria without harming the patient."

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

Since then those stocks have been lights out, up 76% in 2023, 47.5% in 2024, and 19.3% last year, beating the market every year, according to FactSet.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Maye was lights out for much of the season—there’s a reason he was in the MVP mix—and this will be the first mild weather game the Patriots have played in ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

They then travelled to Rothley where they waited in Mrs Spragg's car with the lights out.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

One night, a few minutes before lights out, an older prisoner named Moshe, who had been in four different camps in three years, stopped by Jack’s bunk to visit, as he often did.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren