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How to use lamp in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Lamp means a device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb. Example: “Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.”

Examples of lamp by meaning

verbTo hit, clout, belt, wallop.

  • All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 337

verbTo hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

  • I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping.1988 June 28, “Cold Lampin' With Flavor” (track 4), in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy

More sentences with lamp

  • Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.From the entry rub
  • I pushed the plug back into the electrical socket and the lamp began to glow again.From the entry plug
  • A gooseneck lamp can be swiveled around an object, allowing a good examination of all its surfaces.From the entry gooseneck
  • My lizard likes to spend his days basking on the stone near the lamp.From the entry bask
  • This ashtray is very midcentury, but that lamp is the most midcentury thing I've seen all year.From the entry midcentury
  • Each fluorescent troffer in the room contained three lamps and two ballasts.From the entry troffer
  • Every morning she cleaned the carbon from the lamp chimneys.From the entry carbon
  • Cut off the lamp so I can get some sleep.From the entry cut off
  • A man bumped into a lamp post during a pea-souper; he immediately apologised to it, not realising what it was.From the entry pea-souper
  • My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again.From the entry upright
  • His cheapness was legendary; he refused to use candles or lamps, not to reduce the risk of fire but rather to save a penny.From the entry cheapness
  • I enabled geofencing in my smart home so that the power to my lamps automatically turns on when I arrive home after work.From the entry geofencing
  • Attempts to fuse and defluorinate rock phosphate by feeding the finely ground material into the flame of a blast lamp were not successful.From the entry defluorinate
  • Another way to get your wish granted is to find a lamp with a genie in it.2025, Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper, page 21. From the entry antique
  • California is the second state to pass a ban on fluorescent lamps, with Vermont being the first.2023 July 20, “How to Comply with the California Fluorescent Bulb Law”, in Stratus. From the entry LFL
  • No more midnight oil — for why should he be a slave of the lamp?2022, Albert V. Harmon, Large Fees and How to Get Them: A book for the private use of physicians. From the entry slave of the lamp
  • Rude, open tanks extended on every side, dull with ultraviolet lamps, atrickle with hosed chemicals.2020, Damien Broderick, The Dreaming. From the entry atrickle
  • 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
  • One is called an olive oil chamber lamp and is from Lehman's in Ohio.2011, Carol Firenze, The Passionate Olive: 101 Things to Do with Olive Oil, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry chamber lamp
  • The other lamp, a tall, golden Art Deco torchière, illuminated the center of the room.2011, Emma Jameson, Ice Blue: Lord & Lady Hetheridge #1. From the entry torchière
  • The pack are suffering mechanicals and pull up under a lamp post marking a right turn.2010, Andy Allsopp, Barring Mechanicals - from London to Edinburgh and Back, on a Recumbent Bicycle, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry mechanical
  • Hilly howled as he lit the lamp and dove toward us clad in only his gotch.2009, Milton Ramsden, Northward to Love, Trafford Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry gotch
  • He also developed the innovative davy lamp for use in coal mines.2009, Cutler J. Cleveland, Christopher G. Morris, editors, Dictionary of Energy: Expanded Edition, Elsevier, published 2009, page 124. From the entry davy
  • By the light of the kerosene lamp, she washed the dishes while Cody dried them.2005, Janet Dailey, Let's Be Jolly. From the entry dadly
  • Next to the cupboard of breakfast cereal hung a Betty lamp, a wick-snipper, a cherry-pitter.2004, Sarah Messer, Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England’s Oldest Continuously Lived-In House, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry cherry-pitter
  • Russ tipped the magazine slightly to reduce the glare from the lamp.2003, David M. Pierce, Elf Child, The Hatworth Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry dishwater blond
  • His father, in another room, unlights the lamp and leaves the world alone.2002, Ilya Kaminsky, Ilya Kaminsky Greatest Hits. From the entry unlight
  • Classically, iridodonesis is seen on slit lamp examination with eye movement.2001, William Tasman, Edward A. Jaeger, The Wills Eye Hospital Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page…. From the entry subluxation
  • First, close the doors, unsash the curtains, turn off all the lights but the glass lamp.2001, Liza Nelson, Playing Botticelli, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry unsash
  • The replicated cribs, painted lamps, rocking chairs and dollhouses look straight out of grandma’s attic.1999 December, “A Special Section for the Child at Heart”, in Los Angeles, volume 44, number 12, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Auntie…. From the entry peely
  • A maid passed her the gold thali with a lamp and kumkum and turmeric powder in it.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 197. From the entry kumkum
  • If you manage to pick it up, you might read "You steal the lamp.1997, Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry scripton
  • I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.1995, Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City. From the entry yeow
  • A certain Mr Barnard, the streetkeeper, had the job of lighting these lamps every evening.1993, Memories of Knysna, Friends of the Knysna Libraries, page 33. From the entry streetkeeper
  • Before returning to the surface, we shut off our lamps and experienced total darkness.1992, T. J. Burr, Rocky Mountain Adventure Collection: The Adventures of a Colorado Mountaineer, Santa Barbara, C.A.: Fithian Press…. From the entry nyctophobe
  • One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting, page 19. From the entry swag
  • A familiar application is the fountain lamp that has several hundred fibers spraying out of the top.1989, Ron Whittaker, Video Field Production, page 349. From the entry fountain lamp
  • Every one of them was heavy with the artichokey smell of butter lamps.1989, The Utne Reader, volumes 31-36, page 44. From the entry artichokey

Meaning of lamp

  1. noun A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
  2. noun A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
  3. noun A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

Full definition of lamp

Questions about lamp in a sentence

How do you use lamp in a sentence?
Lamp is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.”
What is a short sentence with lamp?
“I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping.”
What does lamp mean?
Lamp means a device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

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