Sentence examples for or bulb from inspiring English sources

The basic problem seemed to be to keep the burner, or bulb, from being consumed by preventing it from overheating.

It is because the condition mimics damage to the brain stem, or bulb, that the company decided to call it pseudobulbar affect.

(In this context, the term bulbar refers to the medulla oblongata, which looks like a swelling, or bulb, at the top of the spinal cord).

The New Yorker, June 7 , 1941P. 23 PROFILE of Douglas Leigh, builder of spectacular signs, "a larger-than-average sign that has unusual neon or bulb animated effects.

Future Forests offers a no-frills menu of one tree or bulb for each short-haul flight, two trees or bulbs for each medium-distance trip and five of either for each long-range odyssey.

They would surely have feared that their interlocutors might respond by producing and waving about in a threatening manner an iron implement with a long handle and a ball or bulb at one end.

Hundreds of thousands may be present in infested roots or bulbs.

They have been installed on a raised platform and it is relatively easy for visitors to scatter seeds or bulbs.

Native to deciduous, wooded areas, spring ephemerals are perennials, corms or bulbs that reliably come back every year.

Pretty soon I was buying spare light bulbs or bulbs for my friends, just so I'd have an excuse to go see him".

Chalk up 3,430 pounds of carbon dioxide on the debit side of your environmental account, but still just two trees or bulbs on the credit side.