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How do you use Daylights in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.

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Daylights in a sentence

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Daylights | Daylight | Daylighting

Daylights meaning

  1. plural of daylight
  2. A person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting).
  3. Mental soundness; wits; consciousness.

Using Daylights

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of daylight | A person's eyes (mostly as a target in fighting). | Mental soundness; wits; consciousness.
  • In the example corpus, daylights often appears in combinations such as: living daylights, daylights out, the daylights.

Context around Daylights

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 0 start, 8 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

living 8×

Often after:

went 1× almost 1×

Sentence patterns with Daylights

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

the living daylights out of 5× hitting the daylights out of 1× knock the daylights out of 1× moonlights er daylights as a 1× scares the daylights out of 1× the living daylights almost a 1× the living daylights in 1986 1× the living daylights went back 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

aston martin v8 1× but now miss 1× following on from 1× however it turns 1× it is hard 1× magician david kwong 1×

Common sentence endings:

a decade earlier 1× across the globe 1× baby in september 1× for the books 1× his mere presence 1× minutes to complete 1×

Words around Daylights

Just before it in the word index:

daylighting 6 daylight 732 daylesford 10 daylen 4 dayle 2 dayieb 2

Just after it in the word index:

daylilies 7 daylily 3 daylin 3 daylon 3 daylong 51 dayman 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aami 15 aat 15 abada 15 abcs 15 abdulkareem 15 abha 15

Corpus analysis for Daylights

  • In this selection, "daylights" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, living, went and almost stand out and add context to how "daylights" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include the living daylights out of and hitting the daylights out of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "daylights" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with daylights

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The Wrinkles the Clown trailer is scaring the living daylights out of people. (13 words)

Or, as I said, he could just be trolling the living daylights out of them. (15 words)

However, it turns out he was originally cast in The Living Daylights almost a decade earlier. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Following on from Roger Moore’s seven camp outings as 007, the Welsh star’s take on the role in 1987’s The Living Daylights went back to the spy character as Ian Fleming created him for the books. (39 words)

It is hard to believe that any tennis match has begun with the brutal intensity of this one, both players hitting the daylights out of the ball for the first seven games that took 44 minutes to complete. (38 words)

Technically speaking, Gigantomachia's initial debut occurs during a flashback focusing on Mina Ashido and Eijiro Kirishima's backstories as a cloaked figure who scares the daylights out of civilians with his mere presence. (34 words)

Example sentences (12)

But now Miss May-Griffiths, age 23, said the mould in her home 'scares the living daylights' out of her because she is expecting her first baby in September.

Following on from Roger Moore’s seven camp outings as 007, the Welsh star’s take on the role in 1987’s The Living Daylights went back to the spy character as Ian Fleming created him for the books.

However, it turns out he was originally cast in The Living Daylights almost a decade earlier.

Technically speaking, Gigantomachia's initial debut occurs during a flashback focusing on Mina Ashido and Eijiro Kirishima's backstories as a cloaked figure who scares the daylights out of civilians with his mere presence.

Throughout the history of the horror genre, there have been some utterly horrifying and iconic transformations that have scared the living daylights out of audiences across the globe.

It is hard to believe that any tennis match has begun with the brutal intensity of this one, both players hitting the daylights out of the ball for the first seven games that took 44 minutes to complete.

Magician David Kwong moonlights (er, daylights?) as a crossword puzzle creator for the New York Times.

Their slogan of Congress-Mukt Bharat will never succeed and Priyanka ji will knock the daylights out of the ruling party” he mused.

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The Wrinkles the Clown trailer is scaring the living daylights out of people.

Or, as I said, he could just be trolling the living daylights out of them.

To that end, Monday's program brought us a panel designed to annoy the living daylights out of you a lot of the time.

Aston Martin V8 Vantage from The Living Daylights In 1986, Gauntlett negotiated the return of fictional British secret agent James Bond to Aston Martin.

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Common combinations with daylights

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "daylights" in a sentence?
An example: "But now Miss May-Griffiths, age 23, said the mould in her home 'scares the living daylights' out of her because she is expecting her first baby in September." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "daylights" from authentic English texts.
What does "daylights" mean?
Daylights means: plural of daylight
How many example sentences with "daylights" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "daylights", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.