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How to use bulb in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Bulb means the bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown. Example: “The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?”

Examples of bulb by meaning

nounThe bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale...

  • the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 265c

nounAny solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.

  • the bulb of the aorta

nounA light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).

  • an incandescent bulb
  • an LED bulb
  • a fluorescent tube bulb

More sentences with bulb

  • The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?From the entry gone
  • He gave his daughter some hyacinth bulbs with the caveat that she plant them in the shade.From the entry caveat
  • Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.From the entry torch
  • I had to get on a chair to change the light bulb.From the entry get on
  • It's not rocket science. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch.From the entry rocket science
  • It's not brain surgery. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch.From the entry brain surgery
  • He fears the dark, so he invented a longer-lasting light bulb.From the entry fears
  • It's not rocket surgery. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch.From the entry rocket surgery
  • The estate's present seed stock comprises seedlings, bulbs and various nuts.From the entry seed stock
  • That bulb has been burning for years.From the entry burn
  • Almost anyone can change a light bulb.From the entry anyone
  • The incandescent light bulb is on its way out.From the entry on its way out
  • Those tulip bulbs have taken root.From the entry take root
  • Those flower bulbs that our neighbor gave us are a gift that keeps on giving — they keep blooming year after year.From the entry gift that keeps on giving
  • The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.From the entry stagehand
  • The unwashed bulbs looked as if they’d just been pulled from the ground.2021 September 3, Steven Crook, “Highways & Byways: Tripping through Douliu”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2021. From the entry Cihtong
  • Select individual bulbs that are firm and have no noticeable blemishes on them.2015, Charlie Nardozzi, New England Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year, Cool Springs…. From the entry tunic
  • Stage lighting alters, too: from an exposed bulb hanging at the start to eclipselike effects later.2015 October 9, Alastair Macaulay, “Review: New York City Ballet’s ‘Jeux’ Lets Sara Mearns Shine”, in New York Times. From the entry eclipselike
  • Such bulbs tend to dwindle away instead of fattening up and producing offsets.2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden…. From the entry offset
  • Being an extra big light bulb and eating with two cousins and their husband and fiance.2014, carolcraves, "https://twitter.com/carolcraves/status/429233427863183360", Twitter, 31 January 2014. From the entry lightbulb
  • She suffered psychotic episodes during which she believed herself to be spied upon by light bulbs.2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 152. From the entry psychotic
  • The aortic ring, aortic bulb and sinotubular junction diameters were 24, 31 and 37 mm respectively.2014 September 28, Krzysztof Mokrzycki et al., “Thoracic aorta aneurysm successfully operated on during pregnancy”, in Kardiochirurgia i…. From the entry sinotubular
  • A bare lamp (bulb, globe, 'bubble') radiates light in all directions.2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film, page 296. From the entry bubble
  • In the faint glow of a single blue bulb hanging from a clothesline they bussed and fondled.2007, James Isaiah Gabbe, LaRue's Maneuvers, Chapter 10, LaRue, The Blue Light, p259-60. From the entry buss
  • He just uses them for their noses, like light bulbs or sumthin.2003, Kiyohiko Azuma, edited by ADV manga, Azumanga Daioh : The Manga, volume 1, page 160. From the entry 'bout
  • She didn't actually swing around from the light bulbs, but she was indecently active for her years.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 47. From the entry indecently
  • And here we walk in the house with two coatfuls and armfuls of these bulbs.1981, Michael Jackson, Jessica Jackson, Bruce Jackson, Your father's not coming home any more, page 53. From the entry coatful
  • Old standbys like walkathons, spellathons, and candy and light bulb sales are common.1978, Lawrence W. Prakken, The Education Digest, volume 44, page 37. From the entry spellathon
  • Almost all the machinery had been taken over from one of the large bulb enterprises in Shanghai.1977, Jon Sigurdson, “Notes”, in Rural Industrialization in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 242. From the entry Chiating
  • A blue safety spot inside every bulb turns pink if air has leaked inside.1969, George L. Wakefield, An Introduction to Photography, page 169. From the entry safety spot
  • Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over.1966 [1961], William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy), New York: Grove Press, page 7. From the entry junk
  • I bought the text of the volume on bulbs for a dollar.1959 January 25, Elizabeth Lawrence, edited by Bill Neal, Through the Garden Gate, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry book-ghoul
  • Santa Claus to be there with all kinds of Christmas cooking and growing bulbs for sale.1915 December 16, “Mme. Santa Claus in League with Salisbury Chapter”, in The Morning Leader, volume XII, number 299, Regina, Sask.…. From the entry Mme. Santa Claus
  • Safflower plants produce multiple clusters of flower bulbs, each with varying opening times, making selective harvesting in batches a necessity.2024 August 10, Hui Guo, Tianlun Wu, Guomin Gao, Zhaoxin Qiu and Haiyang Chen, “Lightweight safflower cluster detection based on YOLOv5”…. From the entry multi-batch picking
  • Except for the icky cowl enveloping the bulb, which we washed off in the cold strem that bloomingly warm day .2022, Deborah Joy Corey, Debra Spark, Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family, page 106. From the entry bloomingly

Meaning of bulb

  1. noun The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
  2. noun The medulla oblongata.
  3. noun Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.

Full definition of bulb

Questions about bulb in a sentence

How do you use bulb in a sentence?
Bulb is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?”
What is a short sentence with bulb?
“an LED bulb”
What does bulb mean?
Bulb means the bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bulb (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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