Very lights

[ ver-ee ]

plural noun

1. a variety of colored signal flares, fired from a special pistol Very pistol.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Very lights¹

1910–15; after E. W. Very (1847–1907), U.S. inventor

Example Sentences

Very lights were fired by the enemy continually, illuminating the whole country-side and making the work more hazardous than ever.

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How weak she was when she turned the knob and entered––the very lights seemed dancing around her.

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As it gets darker, the flashes of the guns and the Very lights' solemn brilliance illuminate the whole show like a map.

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Her eyes, her eyes were the very lights of love, carrying passionate kisses on their beams.

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The very lights burned deprecatingly, illuminating beauties upon which no eye gazed and for which no heart beat.

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