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The phrase "a lighter from a" is grammatically correct but incomplete and may not convey a clear meaning without additional context.
You can use it when referring to a lighter that is obtained or sourced from a specific place or person, but it needs to be followed by more information to be fully understandable.
Example: "I borrowed a lighter from a friend at the party."
Alternatives: "a lighter obtained from a" or "a lighter sourced from a".
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The court had also heard that Fairweather had two previous convictions, one for robbery when he stole £30, cigars and a lighter from a shop, and another for criminal damage when he broke a window.
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"When we first got to Brooklyn, Fifth Avenue at night was a dark strip with a light from a bodega every ten blocks or so — kind of a wasteland.
I used the bathroom, washed my hands, rolled a cigarette and walked outside to bum a light from a stressed-out student.
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Soon, the flashlight began to make its way around the table, blinking from menu to menu, scanning the possibilities, like a light from a ship on a dark sea.
Desperate for a cigarette but embarrassed to smoke on the street, she ducks one afternoon into the vestibule of a Catholic cathedral and, finding herself without matches, obtains a light from a heavenly source.
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A lighting from a stomach-heaving helicopter tour in the famously stormy Pacific Northwest, a wobbly Weyerhaeuser Co. flack admits it was the bumpiest of his many flights over the company's vast timber operations.
Once I had mounted the whole thing to the record player, I suspended a light from a hook in the ceiling.
A 2400-Hz, 63-dB tone plus a light (from a small, 7-W lamp) functioned as the CS (conditioned stimulus).
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