noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oil/kerosene/paraffin lamp (= lamps that you light with a flame )
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The large room was lit by a paraffin lamp on a table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lamp
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The only light was from a dim kerosene lamp standing on a low table.
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I got up and lit the kerosene lamp .
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The door closed, with yellow light from the kerosene lamp making a long crack on the floor.
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Because of frequent power outages, we kept kerosene lamps .
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He stayed later and later at the quarries, working by kerosene lamp .
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At night you light your kerosene lamps .
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We used kerosene lamps and stood in line for hours with buckets to draw water from a public water pipe.
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A couple of kerosene lamps were burning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Further cuts in government subsidies on petrol, diesel, kerosene and fertilizer were announced.
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In 1981 the government had to resort to crash purchases of kerosene to meet shortages.
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In her dark cellar kitchen she showed me how to lay the kindling and pour kerosene to fire her wood-burning stove.
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In towns, kerosene is the main fuel for cooking.
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Our nostrils smelled wet grass, human sweat, kerosene , incense, charred flesh.
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The brilliant yellow stain of kerosene light spilled itself out on the snow.
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The engines of the Atlas burned a modified aviation fuel, similar to kerosene , with liquid oxygen.
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The room was lit by a single kerosene hurricane lamp in the center of the table and a few candles.