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Examples
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I flipped the dead porchlight switch, said I had a key stashed.
Better Days Mark Reep 2010
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She is Lunelle only on Halloween nights when, gold-lit under the porchlight, she drops dried buttercup buds in children's cheap plastic pumpkin buckets.
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The boy looks at his grotesque, demeaned fish and thinks, He looked silver under the porchlight.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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I was snuggled up in bed talking on the telephone for so very long, and then I went downstairs for some chocolate and, looking out the window, noticed that beautiful thin layer of snow on the redbuds, perfectly lit with moonlight and porchlight, so I got the camera, stepped into my boots and put on my long coat and crouched carefully into position by the stoop only to find that the battery was dead.
The Snow-on-Redbuds-in-Moonlight Inn. Ann Althouse 2009
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She stands looking at it again in the porchlight amidst the blackout realising that all this movement above and below, these planes, these tanks hurtling towards the coast and far fields of France are dying already
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She stands looking at it again in the porchlight amidst the blackout realising that all this movement above and below, these planes, these tanks hurtling towards the coast and far fields of France are dying already
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Blog Guelph: Volunteers project porchlight, originally uploaded by vw-busman.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2007
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Jane is a shiny porchlight and attracts the best looking junebugs.
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The regular folks were the shiny porchlight that drew in the media and politicians.
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Even I notice it, and as I said, I ain't the brightest porchlight on the block.
"No single incident that soured their relationship... it was a series of small irritations..." Ann Althouse 2006
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