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klieg lights

n. (plural of klieg light English)

Usage examples of "klieg lights".

Before his head could even come up, the entire horizon behind the mountains flashed bright white in a lightning ripple of strobes, as if klieg lights the size of a state had been flicked on and then off, lighting up the valley for almost four seconds as if it was bright daylight.

He is sitting up in a hospital bed surrounded by a firing squad of hot klieg lights that make it difficult to see anything else.

The area where they stood was brightly illuminated by klieg lights on tripods.

If she ever looked back over this extraordinary period in her life, she would recall, first, the sun coming up over the studio ranch in the San Fernando Valley and then the torturing blaze of klieg lights in her eyes.

Mullins lay poised with another platoon inside the garage, two Jeep-mounted klieg lights with them to insure proper visibility.

Martin and Mr Capelli stood in front of the theater for a long while, watching the electricians connecting the klieg lights.

The klieg lights have been turned off, clear northern California light streams in through the windows.

As he watched, Carson saw klieg lights snap into ivory brilliance, first in the front guard tower, then in the rear.

Gary Grady asked, indicating the panic and turmoil and insanity of the crowd below as it reacted to the darkness and now the flickering of powerful klieg lights.

Barbed-wire fences and large, stark buildings, guard towers, and klieg lights on tall poles left an impression on the mind.

They are rowing across a still cove lit by giant flaming klieg lights in the sky.

Two enormous klieg lights set out in front of the theater were sweeping the sky with their pale-blue beams.

Headlights washed like klieg lights across these thick swathes of living matter, highlighting faces and hands as if they were segments of one vast millipede making its laborious way across the city.