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running light

NOUN
  1. light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow

How To Use running light In A Sentence

  • The running lights of ships tracked silently down the Channel, outbound for tropic islands in distant seas. CORMORANT
  • The visibility benefits of daytime running lights to road safety are well-proven world-wide, but South Africa has additional problems with truck roadworthiness," said Rob Handfield-Jones of the AA in a statement. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The ship's radios would be on, but the running lights and the tower beacon would be secured.
  • We had our running lights on and proceeded in a northerly direction very slowly.
  • There are simply no valid arguments against daytime running lights. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sonia waited until he was within three feet of her, then jumped up on the boom, running lightly towards the mast.
  • There are simply no valid arguments against daytime running lights. Times, Sunday Times
  • As well as "jewelled" headlamps with LED daytime-running lights, a more upright radiator grille and the new "double horseshoe" rear profile first shown on the flagship Bentley Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • The thing became a new white motorship at night, without charts or a compass or running lights, but nonetheless slitting the cold, deep ocean at her maximum velocity. Galapagos
  • The running lights of ships tracked silently down the Channel, outbound for tropic islands in distant seas. CORMORANT
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