Very lights
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of Very lights
1910–15; after E. W. Very (1847–1907), U.S. inventor
Example Sentences
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Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he spoke, three green Very lights came from the cockpit of the plane.
From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Bates, Harry
The sudden turning of darkness into day by enemy Very lights imposed instantaneous immobility.
From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor
Suddenly the "Very" lights went up from the German side, literally in hundreds, illuminating the top of the ridge and the sky behind with a thin greenish white flare.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
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