Sentence examples for lights stopped working from inspiring English sources

People ate dinner by candlelight, factories shut down and for the first few days even traffic lights stopped working.

Traffic lights stopped working, and although trains could still function the station had to be closed early as its lighting was cut off.

In 2012, a blackout affected 700 million people across the country: traffic lights stopped working, causing jams in city centres, hospitals had to cancel surgeries, and half-burned bodies were left rotting in electric crematoriums.

Temperatures got so high that traffic lights stopped working in Santa Clarita on Monday.

Some are saying their LED lights have stopped working, and one of their bands is not being able to track sleep anymore.

That was slightly annoying, together with how the lights and stove stopped working.

A couple of weeks ago, I took a small stepladder into the back garden and climbed a few rungs to fix a light that had stopped working.

On Tuesday, cash machines, traffic lights and the underground stopped working.

Suppose you got up one morning and your phone hadn't charged overnight, the light switches had all stopped working, you couldn't toast your Pop-Tarts, and there was no hope of a cup of coffee, because there was no water.

Downtown, A.T.M.'s stopped working, traffic lights went off on certain streets, and two students at the Hastings College School of Law were stuck in an elevator and had to be rescued.

At around midday on Tuesday, following a fault in one of the national grid's main transmission lines, Caracas was plunged into chaos: cash machines stopped working; traffic lights went dark, causing pandemonium on the already unruly roads; and many people were left trapped underground in subway trains.