tail-light
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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P stands still, as the carriages and finally the red tail-light on the guard’s van slowly pass her and vanish into the night.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2019
And BMW unveiled a new mini with a Union Jack on its tail-light.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2018
I seemed to go away; the lights receded like a tail-light racing down a dark country road.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Then the tail-light glimmered more brightly as it returned again, and we looked into the steep hollow with rammed-back slopes out of which the engines backed slowly.
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Dewey, Alfred James
Or would we all, Minetta, the Squire, you, I, have felt meanly and skulkingly relieved when the last tail-light had died away in the night again?
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
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