Sentence examples for be a lamp from inspiring English sources
"That used to be a lamp factory".
Or "Anything Can Be a Lamp Base," from "Newhart"?
"I think this could be a lamp for a collector," he said, "someone who collects very nice small objects and can display something beautiful under the light.
Black's sprawling, low-rise house is set so far behind metal gates that it is barely visible but there appeared to be a lamp gleaming tantalisingly in the window - evidence, at least, that something is switched on inside.
It turns out to be a lamp in the shape of a shapely woman's leg swathed in a fishnet stocking, and the Old Man cherishes it as if it were his very own Oscar.
The Buddha ended his life and career by calling for each seeker to "be a lamp unto yourself".
When the Pequod gams with the Jungfrau out of Bremen in Chapter 81, Starbuck tries to make out the metal object that the German captain is holding in his hand, and thinks it might be a "lamp-feeder".
It was a lamp in my parents' living room.
My father is a lamp, a boy, is two fathers: his own and a wolf father.
