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  • noun Plural form of taillight.

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Examples

  • I can see the taillights might be the red lantern but why not two lanterns?

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • But, if you disconnect the brake or taillights, which is very easy to do -- I could show a 3-year-old how to do it -- they are right there, accessible in the trunk -- you have actually increased the percentage, 50 percent, that the cops will pull the car over, because it has no brake or taillights.

    CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2007 2007

  • Running through the taillights is a line trimmed in chrome that extends across the tailgate.

    Autoblog Green 2009

  • Running through the taillights is a line trimmed in chrome that extends across the tailgate.

    Car Body Design - News 2009

  • When the red taillights streaked up the road, a fraction of the completeness I felt in his presence bled away from me.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • You watch the blur of taillights as the Angels disappear into the night.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • The taillights faded away, deeper, deeper, until they were among the trucks and steamrollers and crowds of men in their orange vests and white helmets.

    ALL I DID WAS LOOK • by David Dalglish 2010

  • It pulls back out onto Fifth Avenue, taillights glowing in the pitch-black night.

    Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011

  • “Keep driving, for the love of God,” he whispered to the far distant taillights as they exited the other side of the construction.

    ALL I DID WAS LOOK • by David Dalglish 2010

  • Cara saw the taillights looming in front of her fast, much too fast, and hit the brakes, barely managing to stop before she smashed into the car in front of them.

    Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

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