Sentence examples for switching on a lamp from inspiring English sources

When switching on a lamp, if you feel too much resistance, chances are that you are trying to turn it the wrong way.

A projection repeatedly shows a pregnant woman in her underwear rising from her chair and switching on a lamp.

You may also want to switch on a lamp.

The reaction was started by switching on a 30 W fluorescent lamp placed 30 cm above test-tubes and proceeded for 15 min.

Consider the setup: a lively girl of ten or eleven, an only child, with a smile that can be switched on like a lamp, adores her father but seldom sees him.

Colman switched on a lamp and rolled onto his side to face her.

That evening her husband walked through the door at home, switched on a lamp, turned to her and sized up his life.

Hmmm?" Whereupon I pick up a book and I switch on a lamp and I do what Flannery O'Connor advised the writers of those books to do if they wanted to get any work done: I "apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair". The day will come, of course, when I am forced to part with this particular reading chair.

Do not switch on a lamp as this can result in a fire if it comes into contact with any sheets or material.

A common example is the idea of an intelligent home, where switching on your bedside lamp in the morning will inform the coffee maker downstairs to start percolating.

Toby went around switching on lamps but didn't draw the curtains, and so the room was filled with their awareness of the thin city darkness outside, and the rushing sound of the rain, which had begun to fall in earnest.