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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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole horizon was alight with bursting shells and Very lights.
From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger
On the 15th of September Captain L. E. O. Charlton fired Very lights over enemy guns previously observed.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Anyhow for quite a spell afterwards they were very "windy" and would send up the "Very" lights on the slightest provocation and start the "typewriters" a-rattling.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
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