Sentence examples for under the lamp from inspiring English sources

"It's the old story about the drunk looking for his car keys under the lamp post -- because the light is good there," she said.

The thing resembled a dark-green hand grenade, and under the lamp that hung above the dinner table it gleamed and steamed, to my appalled eyes, with the promise of pure malice.

On the dresser under the lamp there was a pamphlet that said "Your Service Member Is Home!" The TV was going in the living room, but maybe she was in the cellar.

He thought he had dropped it in the dark, back down the street, but he was looking for it under the lamp, where at least the light was good.

The span here is from a very familiar Blue Period etching, "The Frugal Repast" (1904), said to be his first print, depicting an impoverished couple at their meager meal, to "Still Life With Glass Under the Lamp" (1962), a crisp, angular linoleum cut that uses his own device of a one-block process for color printing.

Now, the latest from good ol' Ma Bell's obnoxious offspring is this; that old dinosaur of a phone -- yeah, the one defiantly clinging to the wall in your kitchen in Leonia or on the bedside table under the lamp -- it is a huge albatross around your neck.

In the darkness, working under the lamps on their helmets, Peake and Kopra had half an hour to replace the failed unit with a new one before the sun rose and sent high voltage electricity surging through the fresh box of electronics.

When finding the illumination is under the preset threshold, the lamp member will send a turning-on vote to the lamp leader.

If they are constantly under the heat lamp it needs to be warmer, if they are never under the heat lamp it needs to be cooler.

Were those them, under the heat lamp?

By Tuesday, he said, "It's sitting under the heat lamp giving me the eyeball.