Sentence examples for broken lamp from inspiring English sources

While not strictly essential, covers will protect your turtle from potential threats like broken lamp bulbs.

"A child with pathological guilt can walk into a room and see a broken lamp, for example, and even if the child didn't break it, he or she will start apologising," said Belden.

Like an embarrassed child trying to hide a broken lamp behind a curtain, Sajid Javid last Thursday, hours before the Easter break, sneaked out the news that the government wants to privatise the Land Registry.

He describes showing to "a perky 7-year-old boy" a simple drawing of a boy and a dog, playing ball inside a house and a broken lamp on the floor beside them.

He also decided to "fix" the broken lamp in the kitchen, which has left me with bare wires dangling from the ceiling and £40 poorer (for the apparently essential new transformer).

The broken lamp signifies the broken system Leung presides over.

They resemble broken lamps, and indeed might be saying, Careful, or I'll punch your lights out.

"A hotel needs a man to hustle broken lamps to the engineer's office, to tote the dirty linen, to fetch with a smile".

Thirty groups have started Repair Cafes across the Netherlands, where neighbors pool their skills and labor for a few hours a month to mend holey clothing and revivify old coffee makers, broken lamps, vacuum cleaners and toasters, as well as at least one electric organ, a washing machine and an orange juice press.

A tangle of cables, twisted metal and broken lamps hung down like spilled entrails from the shattered ceiling.

McCurren allegedly broke lamps, mirrors, furniture and other spa equipment before spraying a fire extinguisher throughout the building.