lighting-up time

noun

1. the time when vehicles are required by law to have their lights switched on

Example Sentences

From Kentford to Bury St. Edmunds was a fine, but cold, switchback run along a very straight road, just before lighting-up time, though it was not dark enough yet to prevent an impression of the landscape from being left on the mind.

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And almost by lighting-up time they were shoulder to shoulder on the road once more.

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His title is characteristic, Lighting-up Time symbolising here that period in the career of an actress when her possibly waning attractions need the illumination of a judicious boom.

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After our late luncheon we ran back from Hitchin to London, but, not arriving before lighting-up time, we had to turn on the head-lights beyond Barnet.

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When the tyre was mended, something went wrong with the electric ignition, and altogether the repairs proved such a tedious job that they could not make a fresh start until close upon lighting-up time.

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