Sentence examples for gas lighting from inspiring English sources

Oil was used for street lighting until the spread of gas lighting reduced demand and the Whitby Whale Oil and Gas Company changed into the Whitby Coal and Gas Company.

The advantages of gas lighting were immediately realized and exploited, despite the initial cost.

Neon had a good run — it was the gas lighting up America.

The first major advance in several centuries was the introduction of gas lighting.

Once gas lighting appeared in the mid-19th century, curtains came into vogue.

In 1825 Molson provided his city with a splendid theatre, and gas lighting appeared by 1837.

Unless the President attempts to govern by gas-lighting.

This is a form of indirect political gas-lighting, perpetuating the idea that Black communities get what they ask for (whether it's the crime or the punishment) and that their protests against systematic injustice is ultimately hypocritical.

A control freak may make you feel that you are paranoid and that it is you who has the problem (gas-lighting).

Gas-lighting can cause victims to doubt their own memories and perceptions, and make it hard to distinguish fact from fiction.

In its crackling and flickering, the work makes reference to the gas-lighting that disappeared from Vienna in 1962, replaced by electrical light sources.