Sentence examples for gas lamp from inspiring English sources
noun
A lamp which operates by burning gas.
The gas lamp could have been in Dublin".
Jim's family Bible was getting hard to read by gas lamp.
It is an electric reproduction of the bishop's crook design, not a gas lamp.
"But we still have one original gas lamp that we never changed to electricity".
Bougainvillea crawls up the side of the house; a gas lamp flickers above the threshold.
He stood in the portico awash in light cast by a flickering gas lamp.
The Richmond Society, a local pressure group, protested at the change to the character of the bridge, and succeeded in forcing the council to retain the Victorian gas lamp-posts, converted to electric light, which remain in place today.
Yet you'll find Egyptian cotton sheets on the bed and a clawfoot bath for gas-lamp-lit soaks.
Sure, plenty of young moderns have gone in for the conspicuously gas-lamp names "Ruby" and "Cyrus," but I don't know any mining the New Deal.
The new bridge was designed to capture some of that flavor and will feature a variety of decorative pylons, an elaborate rail system, and gas-lamp style lighting, officials have said.
If you get sick of those tedious period details (gas-lamp, chamber-pot, chandler — oy!), consider cutting between the past and the present, where the narrator discovers information about some ancestor's role in things.
