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Example sentences for "lamps"

Lexicographically close words:
lampooning; lampoons; lamppost; lamprey; lampreys; lampshade; lampstand; lampstands; lams; lance
  1. And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps that were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.

  2. Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold, and of brass, the mountains glittered therewith, and they shone like lamps of fire.

  3. Lamps made of three thousand bits of glass set in copper.

  4. The lamps were out, but the warm starlight vaguely illumined a dozen figures scattered in couples.

  5. I have a sense of having enshrouded myself in a sort of mist of talk, and of seeing her lovely eyes shining through it opposite to me, like fog- lamps at sea.

  6. It superseded, too, the necessity of any lamps or torches.

  7. It is much the same here, caro Vito Viti, though our mariners do burn so many lamps and offer up so many aves.

  8. This warning cry saved him from whatever heresy he might have been about to utter; and presently the train carried them out into the gas-sprinkled darkness, with an ever-growing speed that soon left the city lamps far behind.

  9. At that charming station the trunks are piled higgledy-piggledy into a room beside the track, where a few inspectors with stifling lamps of smoky kerosene await the passengers.

  10. As the night grew, lights twinkled from a lonely house here and there in the valleys; a swarm of lamps showed a town where it lay upon the lap or at the foot of the hills.

  11. The gas-lamps were lighted; a brown fog was gathering over the streets, blending itself with the falling shades of night.

  12. The mellow radiance of lamps streamed out and flung a circle of light round them.

  13. Mr. Narkom, who had at last succeeded in lighting a couple of lamps and some wax candles which made the room a little less gloomy.

  14. Then we would have an unreasonably good supper and afterward climb the ladder to the lantern to see the lamps lighted, and sit there for a while watching the ships and the sunset.

  15. The dampness had affected the antiquated lamps so that those on the walls and on the front of the gallery were the dimmest lights I ever saw, and sent their feeble rays through a small space the edges of which were clearly defined.

  16. The street was fully lighted now by powerful lamps of electricity, some belonging to the roadway, others hung out over restaurants and shops.

  17. The salon was lighted with shaded electric lamps and furnished and hung entirely in white, so that there was that dazzling effect of light I knew she always loved.

  18. My heart was filled with marvel and dream, Though I saw the western street-lamps gleam, Though dawn was bringing the western day, Though Chang was a laundryman ironing away.

  19. Now we were in parts where we could breathe freely, and then working along where the dense gas made our lamps sputter and crackle; and the opening of one for an instant would have been a flash, and death for us both.

  20. Already the lamps had begun to glimmer from these remote habitations, dotting the hillsides like widely scattered candles.

  21. The lamps went out by degrees as the oil was expended, adding to the horror of the situation by leaving them in utter darkness.

  22. Now the seven lamps signified the seven planets; for so many there were springing out of the candlestick.

  23. These lamps were in number seven, and represented the dignity of the number seven among the Jews; and the last of all the spoils, was carried the Law of the Jews.

  24. Would you not feel yourselves at the same painful disadvantage if you were obliged to fly at night, when we owls come and go at our ease, our great pupils serving us as lamps to see by?

  25. Hope is not yet dead in them; they still have faith in mankind, and each shadowy form that emerges in the light of the gas-lamps entices them as offering promise of a home.

  26. Some clerks were at work behind a glass partition, and already the gas flared high in the green-shaded lamps above the desk at which they worked.

  27. Now, by chance, Jacques de Beaune did not find this great lady so very old between the sheets, since everything is metamorphosed by the light of the lamps of the night.

  28. Downstairs on the billiard cloth, something lying white, Upstairs still the dance goes on, all the lamps are bright.

  29. His father and I strolled up and down the shiny half-dried pavement till the street-lamps were lighted, and the club-windows began to brighten and glow.

  30. Driving along in the sharp, clear twilight, till we caught sight of the long lines of lamps which make the camp so picturesque at night time, I found that compelling one's self to be gay sometimes makes one so.

  31. Then, as the light near these windows increased, the motor boys found themselves gazing out into the sea, illuminated in some strange manner by hidden electric lamps on the side of the submarine.

  32. Silently the struggle went on, but, fortunately, not in darkness, for both the submarine electric lamps still glowed, and now they were within range of the light that streamed from the glass windows of the cabin of the Sonderbaar.

  33. Then, covered by the fire from the roofs, he sprang to the lamps and tilted them until they threw their shafts into the windows of the third story.

  34. In a minute the blazing lamps had been shattered by bullets, and once more, save for the fierce flashes from rifles and pistols, Sowell Street lay in darkness.

  35. The walls were hidden by dark blue hangings, in which sparkled tiny mirrors, the floor was covered with Turkish rugs, the lights concealed inside lamps of dull brass bedecked with crimson tassels.

  36. From a public-house on the corner a row of yellow lamps showed them clearly.

  37. The dervish then lit the twelve lamps at this self-generated flame.

  38. Fetching from behind the door twelve small copper lamps which he filled with some dark liquid from a small bottle which he drew from his bosom, he placed them symmetrically around the magic circle.

  39. Lamps were used only for scientific purposes: the rest of the time we had to content ourselves with God's light--the moon and the Aurora Borealis.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.