Sentence examples for old bulbs from inspiring English sources

"They never dig up old bulbs," she said.

"A lot of us who worked with Flavin still have the old bulbs," Cooper said, with a sly smile.

When wild garlic arrives, it's time to dump those stale old bulbs of over-stored, powdery garlic and imported herbs.

Although tulips are perennials, they can be temperamental, and so the old bulbs are replaced each year to ensure quality and to make possible the changing colors.

In a study released last week, the group said that replacing inefficient old bulbs with new units would eliminate the need for 33 large power plants, lowering electricity costs and harmful pollution.

The one no-fault, unassailable eco-idea of the moment is to switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs from energy-sucking incandescents, even if the old bulbs have not worn out.

The best way to do this is to take the old bulb along with you.

The old bulb is gone now and the smaller bulbs do not truly amount to much in the garden setting.

This would allow the supplier to send a pre-emptive replacement and collect the old bulb, making it much easier to recover materials for recycling.

The old bulb was hot, and I was passing it from hand to hand, holding the new bulb under my arm, when the puppy leapt up at my older son's face.

8. Convert to LED bulbs Yes, they're more expensive upfront -- an LED light bulb costs about $8 per bulb, whereas an incandescent is around a buck -- but an LED bulb will last a whopping 25,000 hours (or almost 23 years, assuming three hours of use per day) compared with 1,000 hours for a regular old bulb.