Sentence examples for broken lamps from inspiring English sources

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.

It's been fairly easy to get reimbursed for broken lamps and such, but when a mover once broke my computer, I only learned after filing a claim that their insurance didn't cover electronics.

Two broken lamps were seven cents, total.

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

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

On some days, most of the containers have their rolling steel gates half-closed, like heavy-lidded eyes; on others, startlingly, one or two disgorge their contents all over the sidewalk: broken dolls, lamps, pots and pans.

Saying that their right to free speech is being violated, a group of residents filed suit against the Council today in an effort to bring back the days when the full Council was forced to listen to comments on matters as varied as police misconduct, broken street lamps or a once-beloved Council member gone bad.

We came upon the tablecloth as we investigated the back of that linen closet which contained some broken antique lamps, ancient perfume bottles, and other never to be used again items.