noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk lamp
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Don't forget to switch off the desk lamp.
a street light/lamp
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It was getting dark, and the street lamps were already on.
bedside lamp/table/cabinet etc
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The clock on her bedside table said half past four.
floor lamp
fog lamp
halogen bulb/lamp/light etc
hurricane lamp
lava lamp
oil lamp
safety lamp
standard lamp
table lamp
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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Not only that, it was lit by electric lamps .
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Around them were several old electric lamps , a couple with ornate glass shades, and chimneys.
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In the dressing room afterwards, brightly lit by the new Tantallum electric lamps , the atmosphere was just as electric.
fluorescent
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So it seems the future of compact fluorescent lamps is secure.
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A fluorescent lamp must be connected to a stabiliser, or ballast, to limit and control its operating current.
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Overhead were Maurer's enormous fluorescent lamps .
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The clue to the flourishing creativity lies with phosphor chemistry, which is essential to the manufacture of fluorescent lamps .
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In place of ordinary light bulbs, you could use compact fluorescent lamps .
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There are many types of fluorescent lamp available so the range of conventional starters is equally varied.
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Several requirements have to be considered when designing a fluorescent lamp .
little
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Jewel-tipped stalactites hung from the cavern roof, aglow like many little lamps .
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Also we stopped using our little paraffin lamp during the night watch, and used torches instead.
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There was no holy picture on the wall, with its little oil lamp , no homely touch he recognized.
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There were little lamps illuminating the little rat alleys.
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The fire crackled in the grate, its light competing with that of the little gas lamp .
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The glow of the little orange lamp made her face like a beautiful mask: like one of her carvings downstairs.
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I want a little lamp like yours.
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The room was half dark; only the little table lamp was on beside the bed, with its orange parchment shade.
old
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An old magic lamp is hidden somewhere in Happyland.
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Success was not achieved without considerable risk to an old street lamp and the Downing Street red carpet.
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Around them were several old electric lamps , a couple with ornate glass shades, and chimneys.
red
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The red sanctuary lamp glowed ahead of them, to the left of the high altar.
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Lanterne Rouge Last rider on general classification, given a red lamp and a special cheer on arrival in Paris.
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A light burned in the hall, the red lamp .
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The truck in front had a red lamp hooked to its tail-gate.
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A red devotional oil lamp burned on the table below.
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Athelstan, taking the keys from his belt, went up beneath the winking red sanctuary lamp and opened the tabernacle door.
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I need the artificial light of a large red anglepoise lamp on the writing table.
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The red lamp was burning on the mahogany table, catching above the chandelier with its drops of blood.
single
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The single lamp burned on the mantel.
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The room was lit by a single kerosene hurricane lamp in the center of the table and a few candles.
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A single standard lamp was alight.
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She'd left her bed, gone through to the lounge, put on a single lamp , and made the call.
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The illumination source was either a single tungsten lamp or this plus a conventional warm white striplight as appropriate.
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It was a shadow cast by the single lamp in the room.
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By the light of a single dim bedside lamp , she saw Christine.
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Finally, he reached an evil, narrow street lit only by a single lamp .
small
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Several of the traders had lit small oil lamps which they hung in front of their stalls.
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One of the small table lamps was lit.
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On the mantelpiece there was a small lamp with a crimson shade and I switched it on.
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Hassan has to buy gas cylinders to light the stove and the two small lamps that light his apartment.
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The Moulin Rougestaff steer them all to their tables in the auditorium, which is lit with small pink lamps .
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A small lamp was mounted on an upright stanchion near the head of each staircase.
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It was given a small head lamp in place of the Croydon side lamps.
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On it I have propped a small ceramic lamp .
standard
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Can the table and standard lamps be used to better advantage by moving them to different positions?
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Stick to your plan of good general lighting and a standard or table lamp behind you.
■ NOUN
desk
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An ideal gift for any student is an adjustable desk lamp , the more flexible the better.
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The desk lamp with an emerald-green shade and small prints of Degas' dancers were the only distinctive features of the room.
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There was a shaded desk lamp by the telephone, and that was it.
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From the desk lamp , glassy nuclei of brightness followed the words he wrote.
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The daylight did not penetrate far into the room where only his desk lamp was lit.
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In the bald white light of my desk lamp I took another look-and there were more eggs now than before.
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It is operated by the light from an ordinary desk lamp to provide an excellent level of illumination at its screen.
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I switched the desk lamp off, and sat in darkness.
floor
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These are: Conventional pendant and ceiling lights, wall lights, table lamps , floor lamps and strip lights.
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Floor lamps Use a floor lamp to create enticing pools of light.
fog
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A matched pair of front fog lamps can be substituted for headlamps in conditions of fog or falling snow.
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There is a fog lamp in the rear and two up front.
gas
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The gas lamp flickered and spluttered above him, sending moving shadows across the walls.
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In the windows of the decrepit houses, gas lamps were beginning to be lighted.
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In the light of the yellow gas lamp there was neither day nor night.
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A long line of gas lamps ran along each wall, giving it a dim smoky glow.
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Capshaw got up and turned the valve on the gas lamp .
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Down in the dark and foggy street a figure stood waiting beneath a lighted gas lamp .
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He sat back in the armchair and watched the smoke drifting upwards from his pipe towards the gas lamp .
halogen
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Roma table Grillo low-voltage tungsten halogen lamp with dimmer switch.
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Compared with ordinary incandescent lamps , quartz-\#halogen lamps have longer lives and maintain their light output over time.
hurricane
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The light from the hurricane lamp fell on your hair.
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The room was lit by a single kerosene hurricane lamp in the center of the table and a few candles.
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Hanging from the central pole was a hurricane lamp that suffused the man and woman with an orange glow.
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Policemen were poking among the ruins by the fence, shining hurricane lamps .
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A white hurricane lamp burned in the window.
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I went inside and came back out with a hurricane lamp .
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The hurricane lamp swung within reach - I could turn it out when I wanted to.
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A hurricane lamp was hung on another nail.
kerosene
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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.
lava
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The lamp , also called the lava lamp, was launched in 1963 but as fashions changed its popularity declined.
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Thick rugs, beaded curtains, lava lamps , colored lights.
oil
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Several of the traders had lit small oil lamps which they hung in front of their stalls.
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It glowed with the warm, welcoming light of oil lamps .
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Victorian brass telescopic oil lamp stand, £340.
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There was a hot fire in the potbellied stove and an oil lamp burning high on a table in the corner.
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The range used for cooking also provides heat: an oil lamp provides light.
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As the merchants lit oil lamps , their familiar booths turned magical.
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Mrs McGill fries bread for breakfast, takes Chas to bed, cooks supper, lights oil lamp and nurses Nana.
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The fort was in deep darkness, being equipped with only a few improvised oil lamps .
post
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They told him they had heard that the doctor had managed to avoid them all by driving into the lamp post .
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On the artificial turf of the Superdome, Smith raced around him as if he were a lamp post on Bourbon Street.
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The other should be on if the image includes a lamp post .
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One blooming lamp post at the corner and that's it.
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Swerved and crashed into a lamp post .
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They're better than lamp posts and that, cos trees grow out of the ground, so they're extra special like.
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The populace took comfort in the fact that the law was unenforceable; there simply weren't enough lamp posts .
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On the third lesson the defendant drove negligently and hit a lamp post .
safety
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He used Stephenson's double gauze safety lamp up until the 1940s, and quoted to me the number of permitted gauze apertures.
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Wood assisted Stephenson in the development of his safety lamp , which was first tested in 1815.
street
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Yellow street lamps looked lurid in the greyness.
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We end up, unexpectedly, in an alley outside the hotel, and Lip walks down toward a street lamp .
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I said goodbye to her under a street lamp .
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Mr Sammler, back walking the streets , which now were dark blue, a bluish glow from the street lamps .
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A street lamp shed light over the front part of it where the boardroom table stood.
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Clean horizontal light from the street lamps entered our apartment.
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The fine red-gold of his hair was like an angel's aureole against the street lamp .
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The eerie grid of a city was spread out before him, lit by the chemical yellow of the street lamps .
table
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She could put it beside the wooden table lamp on the cupboard by the door.
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This doctor had no projector, no screen, but had a table lamp to which I could hold up the slides.
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However, table lamps aren't the right solution if you are a regular bedtime reader.
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I sat down and he turned on a table lamp .
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He had asked the questions at every interrogation but always from behind the sanctuary of a powerful table lamp .
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She reached over and turned on a table lamp .
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The lacquered fibreboard coffee table above costs £20, the metal and glass table lamp £17.70.
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The room was half dark; only the little table lamp was on beside the bed, with its orange parchment shade.
tungsten
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The illumination source was either a single tungsten lamp or this plus a conventional warm white striplight as appropriate.
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The illumination consisted of one 500W Mercury lamp vertically overhead, and a tungsten lamp at an angle of about 45°.
■ VERB
light
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Several of the traders had lit small oil lamps which they hung in front of their stalls.
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I got up and lit the kerosene lamp .
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The Moulin Rougestaff steer them all to their tables in the auditorium, which is lit with small pink lamps .
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As the merchants lit oil lamps , their familiar booths turned magical.
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June lit their camping lamp which cast weird shadows around the room.
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As they pressed to get to the rope entrance they were lit like lamps .
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Douglas burst open the door into the first, where somebody had lit a lamp .
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They wavered over the hillsides, as though a great city had lit its lamps .
put
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She would put out the lamp in a little while, she promised herself.
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Charles stayed until the last clerk had put out his lamp and gone home.
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He put the owl lamp down.
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She'd left her bed, gone through to the lounge, put on a single lamp , and made the call.
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She put on her bedside lamp , and that helped a little.
stand
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She was standing neat a lamp post, but I could see her face.
switch
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Liz tiptoed to switch on the lamp on the bedside table.
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He switched off the radio, switched off the lamp .
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She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one.
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He switched on a lamp , but even so, the cottage had the feel of a funeral home.
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When I switch off my lamp I switch on me, and viceversa, with no trouble at all.
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He switched on the lamp on his writing desk to provide his room with the most agreeable cast of light.
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He switched on the dressing-table lamp as she rose to greet him.
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I switched the desk lamp off, and sat in darkness.
turn
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He moved, turning off his reading lamp and yawning.
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Ray Sands walked through the living room and dining room, turning on the lamps .
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She turned off the bedside lamp , and then she lay there, not moving.
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Then he turned off the kerosene lamp .
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She'd felt that as soon as she'd turned off the lamp , which showed how irrational it was.
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I sat down and he turned on a table lamp .
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I turned my lamp on her.
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She reached over and turned on a table lamp .
use
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Also we stopped using our little paraffin lamp during the night watch, and used torches instead.
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They went through, moving slowly, cautiously, side by side, using their lamps to light the way ahead of them.
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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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As a member of the Stella Coal Company rescue team, he used Stephenson's lamp as a methane detector.
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Shore stations around the world, using signal lamps , still flash Morse signals to approaching foreign ships to learn their intentions.
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In place of ordinary light bulbs, you could use compact fluorescent lamps .
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Navy and merchant vessels, also using lamps , still use Morse signals in convoy while running under radio silence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a desk lamp
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an infrared lamp
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I said goodbye to her under a street lamp .
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It glowed with the warm, welcoming light of oil lamps.
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Rachaela put her foot on the red Persian carpet and started up, out of the scarlet ambience of the lamp .
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Shamrock cup and saucer by Beleek Bestlite 31170 solid brass lamp base with dark green enamelled shade.
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So it seems the future of compact fluorescent lamps is secure.
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The stars showed the way, but faintly, like lamps along a road for ghosts.
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These new lamps last five times longer and need less than 20 percent of the power used by an ordinary light bulb.
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They're better than lamp posts and that, cos trees grow out of the ground, so they're extra special like.