LAMP in a Sentence

Learn LAMP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

238 example sentences for LAMP, such as:

1. The lamp has a heavy base.
2. Oh dear, I've broken the lamp.
3. The lamp gave out a harsh light.
4. The lamp stands on a circular base.
5. The desk lamp was turned over by someone.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAMP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lamp
 n.  a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs
 n.  an artificial source of visible illumination
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Against the dark background of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held a lamp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  She walked out of the kitchen ahead of them and pausing in the hall raised the lamp at arm's-length, as if to light them up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  She continued to stare at him, the flame of the unshaded lamp bringing out with microscopic cruelty the fretful lines of her face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
4  She stood just as Zeena had stood, a lifted lamp in her hand, against the black background of the kitchen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  When he returned to the kitchen Mattie had pushed up his chair to the stove and seated herself near the lamp with a bit of sewing.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
7  When these nightly duties were performed there was nothing left to do but to bring in the tin candlestick from the passage, light the candle and blow out the lamp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
8  When he re-entered the kitchen the lamp lit up the same scene of shining comfort as on the previous evening.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  She loved this land so much, without even knowing she loved it, loved it as she loved her mother's face under the lamp at prayer time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  Pork, tiptoeing, reached the ring in the chain and drew the lamp slowly down until the table top was brightly bathed in light and the ceiling receded into shadows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece, lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  In the center of the hall the huge ugly lamp, hanging from the ceiling by rusty chains, was completely transformed by twining ivy and wild grapevines that were already withering from the heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  The lamp in the parlor window threw odd golden shadows onto the dark vine-shrouded porch, and the matted tangle of yellow climbing roses and honeysuckle made a wall of mingled fragrance about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  He picked up his hat and bowed and she saw in the light of the lamp that his teeth were showing in a smile beneath his mustache.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  When twilight came on and Prissy, scurrying like a black wraith, lit a lamp, Melanie became weaker.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us.
2  They are almost as expeditious and effectual as Aladdin's lamp.
3  Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim.
4  The lamp has a heavy base.
5  The lamp stands on a circular base.
6  The sun, a lamp, or an electric heater all warm us by radiation.
7  I have but one lamp wait which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience.
8  Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
9  The lamp in the window shone away for hours.
10  The Night Rider lamp has been designed to conform to new British Standard safety requirements.
11  The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.
12  The lamp gave out a harsh light.
13  Love is a lamp, while friendship is the shadow.
14  Oh dear, I've broken the lamp.
15  The desk lamp was turned over by someone.