Lamp in a sentence 🔊
Definition of Lamp (slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop. | To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping. | (slang) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
Short Example Sentence for Lamp
- 1. To inspect the damage he raised the lamp higher. 🔊
- 2. The night lamp cast its pale rays on the sleeping forms. 🔊
- 3. The blazing lamp struck Applegate between the eyes. 🔊
- 4. The resistance of the lamp falls as that of the ballast rises. 🔊
- 5. He picked up the heavy lamp from the table and began to explore. 🔊
- 6. A lamp was kept burning in the room all the time, both day and night. 🔊
- 7. The Commandant took the hat to a lamp and examined it carefully. 🔊
- 8. Holding the lamp aloft I looked inquiringly along the walls. 🔊
- 9. Cord Circuit with Double Lamp Signals] In Fig. 🔊
- 10. I The lamp had not been wiped, and the room smelt slightly of paraffin. 🔊
How to use Lamp in a Sentence?
- 1. Consequently it is not feasible to place the lamp directly in series with long exposed lines. 🔊
- 2. A suspicion came into his mind, and he snatched the lamp to make a closer examination. 🔊
- 3. Such a situation permits the omission of the line relay, the lamp being directly in the line. 🔊
- 4. Byrne jumped up, snatched the lamp off the table, and stooped swiftly over the body. 🔊
- 5. A great log burned in the fireplace, a shaded lamp threw a circle of gold on shining mahogany. 🔊
- 6. His arrangement possesses the compactness of the carbon-filament lamp and is shown in Fig. 🔊
- 7. The armature carries a contact spring adapted to close the local circuit of a lamp whenever it is attracted. 🔊
- 8. There seems to be absolutely no good reason why lamp signals should be substituted for mechanical drops in magneto switchboards. 🔊
- 9. This line has been often criticized on the ground that a lamp could not cause any shadow on the floor if the bird sat above the door. 🔊
- 10. It was the girl who preceded him upstairs carrying an iron lamp from the naked flame of which ascended a thin thread of smoke. 🔊
- 11. The lamp on the floor near the set, still face of the seaman showed it staring at the ceiling as if despairingly. 🔊
- 12. All disappeared into the blackness at the far end of the pier, where a lamp and storm-bell were built into a little chapel-shaped shelter. 🔊
- 13. The open or glass front of the box is turned forward, and a common japan lamp placed in a socket prepared for it in the box. 🔊
- 14. If current in a lamp is too little, its filament either will not glow at all or merely at a dull red, insufficient for a proper signal. 🔊
- 15. At last the lamp went out, and he stumbled against some object which, when he stooped for it, he found to be very cold and heavy to lift. 🔊
- 16. At no time was it dark, for midsummer was over the land, and the moon hung in the sky like a silver lamp when the sun had set. 🔊
- 17. He got down on his hands and knees, with the lamp on the floor, to look under the bed, like a silly girl. 🔊
- 18. The qualities of electromagnets and lamps in these respects are used to advantage by the lamp signal arrangement shown in Fig. 🔊
- 19. Every publican is bound by law to keep a lamp burning outside his house every dark night; and these lamps light the street very creditably. 🔊
- 20. A small candle lamp hung on gymbals is fixed to the woodwork, and throws a scanty gleam on the two figures which are engaged in earnest play. 🔊
- 21. He stood looking after his master with his long, angular chin thrust out, looking yellower where it caught the yellow light of the lamp below. 🔊
- 22. Energizing the relay lights the lamp, and the reverse; the lamp is thus isolated from danger and receives the current best adapted to its needs. 🔊
- 23. In its best form, the lamp signal is mounted behind a hemispherical lens, either slightly clouded or cut in facets. 🔊
- 24. The desk in which he had placed the paper was not locked, and Gray took out the paper and sat down by the lamp to study it. 🔊
- 25. Accordingly, with the spade in one hand and the lamp in the other, I started to retrace my steps to the hoisting cage. 🔊
- 26. In the foreground is a green shaded lamp and crumpled galley slips and paged proofs and letters, two or three papers in manuscript, and so forth. 🔊
- 27. Whilst the stage waited, old Tim attempted to do something to the lamp on that side, and in turning it down he put it out. 🔊
- 28. Psyche, a beautiful maiden beloved of Cupid, whose adventure with the lamp is told in all classical mythologies. 🔊
- 29. Then he resumed his seat, drew a folded slip of paper from his breast pocket, a chart from another, turned up the lamp and began to write. 🔊
- 30. Old scroll, the smoke of years dost wear, So long as o'er this desk the sorry lamp hath shone. 🔊