Example sentences for: lamp

How can you use “lamp” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Up to 150 men in sarongs crouch in concentric circles around a flickering lamp and chant hypnotically while the story is acted out in the center of the circle.

  • That's the message of The Potato Eaters , with its little glinting lamp illuminating the darkness and its loaded juxtaposition on the background wall of ticking clock and Crucifixion, time and eternity.

  • It ineluctably reminds me of the favorite execrable pun perpetrated by those who seem to be in the throes of learning English: “Let's throw a little light on the subject,” said the man as he turned on the lamp.

  • I absolutely thought, until last year, that Hanukkah celebrated the loaves and fishes being miraculously lit by an oil lamp.

  • A friend of Prudie's ordered an expensive lamp as a wedding gift, and the embarrassed groom inquired why she had sent an embroidered footstool bearing the wrong initials.


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