How to Use the green light in a Sentence

the green light

noun
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  • By the time the sculpture got the green light, Nash was in his mid-70s.
    — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t take this as the green light to start planting them.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Brayden Schager has the green light to throw deep at will.
    — oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Newton liked it and gave Schneider the green light to shop it around.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • Page gave Lightfoot the green light to advance to third base.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
  • Ed now has the green light to expand to the remainder of the district.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The Wachowskis get the green light to make The Matrix on a $60 million budget.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The doctors gave the green light for the donation process to begin.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 18 June 2023
  • With more research, plants that speak in color may get the green light too.
    — WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Meanwhile, perhaps the most vivid and springlike color of the day was the green light that bathed the White House.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The grants gave both companies the green light to move forward with sales.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 1 July 2023
  • Logo patches got the green light from the league before the start of last season.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Both brothers were happy to give Joe the green light to go all-in on music.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
  • And there are already plans for a fifth season afoot, should it be given the green light.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Sometime after that, the City Council will vote on whether the tool should be given the green light.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • The decision clears the way for the deal to close now that the UK regulator has given the green light.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Today’s alignment between the sun and Mercury gives you the green light!
    — USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • After six months, I was given the green light by the owner to design my own piece.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The Sudanese government just needed to give the green light.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Bo Odar and Friese will write, showrun and executive produce should the project get the green light.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Green loves having the green light to roam and wreak havoc as a help defender.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Hezbollah was involved in the negotiations and gave the green light for the deal to be sealed.
    — Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Murdoch had given the green light to the O.J. project, and all of Fox’s top executives were on board.
    — Judith Regan, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The 48-hour closure was lifted, giving beach goers the green light to go back in the water to swim or surf along a two-mile strech in the city.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
  • So, why have certain projects been given the green light when most of Hollywood is on pause?
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • In June, the city launched a new licensing system and gave the green light to some crypto trading under the new plan.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Martin got the green light to leave the gift, and Mad Dogs & Englishmen team was surprised with a thoughtful thank you on June 7.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • While writing each absurd joke, Seligman would think about how these films gave her the green light to proceed.
    — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 25 Aug. 2023
  • To get the green light to sell to consumers, both companies need the go-ahead from the US Department of Agriculture.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The Willow project — ConocoPhillips’s controversial drilling plan in the Alaskan arctic — got the green light.
    — Brady Dennis, Washington Post, 23 July 2024

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