How to Use klieg light in a Sentence

klieg light

noun
  • To stand and poke your finger in the klieg light’s eye and demand it.
    — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Within six weeks, not even klieg lights show a hint of suturing.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 July 2024
  • All that work will be more easily and quickly done away from Wall Street’s klieg lights.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 17 June 2025
  • The leaders who look perfect on paper don’t always perform under the klieg lights.
    — Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
  • Tonight the castle was lit up like a movie set with klieg lights and scores of Cinecittà extras vamping as cardinals.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 15 July 2025
  • Matters only get worse when the searching klieg light of fame lands not on Devin but on poor Addison.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Fresh from the United States, they were shoved onto buses and hauled into the prison under blinding klieg lights.
    — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The Santor scam, which plays into the global arms race around tax incentives, shines a klieg light on the often opaque realm of film finance.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Most makers who identified with the independent label toiled in the shadows, far from the klieg lights that shone on their name-brand competitors.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Spectacle, the klieg light of the powerful since before even the ancient Olympics, is still more than capable of blinding us to the dark.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
  • During the concert scenes — which amount to only about 15% of the film — only a klieg light separates Dylan from the stark black backdrop of each venue.
    — Eric Harvey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2019
  • At the end of episode one, Fisk is on a rooftop with the klieg lights behind him, and Murdock is walking in a time shift with the chaos of the city behind him and the lights pulsing on his face.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In that era, that scene served as a quasi-moral counterweight — sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit — to the mainstream wing of the genre, just then arriving into the pop klieg lights.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The Bidens have lived through the death of one son, the addiction struggles of another, several brutal campaigns, and the klieg lights of a presidency.
    — Julia Terruso, Time, 11 June 2026
  • Municipal leaders are ready to shut off the city’s bat-signal klieg lights and rely instead on the crime-fighting services of a private security force called the Crows.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Municipal leaders are ready to shut off the city's bat-signal klieg lights and rely instead on the crime-fighting services of a private security force called the Crows.
    — Hank Stuever, Houston Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The building’s auditorium had been refashioned into a courtroom, klieg lights and cables for broadcasters installed.
    — Tom Nagorski, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
  • As the wedding approached, British newspapers swung the klieg lights of their attention to Markle’s estranged half siblings, who said scathing things about a bride whom few Britons knew.
    — Ellen Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • Across a series of penetrating essays, Eberstadt endeavors to shine a klieg light on the feral scenes of the present, and on the ideological extremism of our times.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Firmly committed to sustainability in fashion, Goodman could put that concept under a klieg light while serving in the top spot — and perhaps Wintour agrees?
    — Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • The play, in development since 2016, shrewdly turns a klieg light on our souls, searching every corner of us to expose our beliefs and our biases - not so much to the world but to ourselves.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Under the klieg lights, his anti-Chevron fervor mysteriously evaporated.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Especially now, with the klieg lights of global attention turned toward her again in the lead-up to Paris, Richardson seems to yearn for the shelter of Big Momma’s house.
    — Maya Singer, Vogue, 9 July 2024
  • The Oscars have always been Hollywood’s most glamorous therapy session, where the industry lays bare its collective psyche under the klieg lights of the red carpet.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • After the Nationals committed $210 million over seven years to Max Scherzer, Strasburg found a spot out of the klieg lights.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Pierini is arguably one of B Street’s most versatile and talented players, a veritable Swiss Army knife under klieg lights who can write, direct and act.
    — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 23 May 2018
  • If nothing else, the headline-garnering Dixon litigation may direct a klieg light to other aspects of Perry’s singular production machine.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
  • Dayton Avenue was still closed for a block a couple of days after the election and the security staff on duty had yet to pack up and fold their klieg lights and break down their Checkpoint Charlie huts and move all the vehicles.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2024
  • But away from the klieg lights, a different side of Elizabeth Taylor — witty, wounded, desperate to prove herself — was shared with the tight circle of confidants who surrounded her during her tumultuous life.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • By 2012, large IRAs began to attract scrutiny, falling under the klieg lights of presidential politics.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 24 June 2021

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