Definitions
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- noun A lamp that
illuminates a street or sidewalk.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I saw it under the light of the streetlamp outside my house.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Four Funny Faces Nancy Ruhling 2011
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I saw it under the light of the streetlamp outside my house.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Four Funny Faces Nancy Ruhling 2011
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I sit and throw off the sheet, pull back the curtain on the dark lawn, empty street, the stark light of the streetlamp.
The Right Thing Robert Boswell 2011
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His characteristic themes are announced: a lonely clapboard house; a pedestrian under a streetlamp, seen from above; an isolated brownstone; a seamstress at a window.
A Peek Behind Those Paintings Karen Wilkin 2011
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I twist to look again past the curtains, but the paved street, the streetlamp, is gone.
The Right Thing Robert Boswell 2011
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The hero may be able to cut through doors and other hard obstacles, or fashion bandages out of a shirt, or maybe even knock a streetlamp onto an enemy.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » May » 05 2009
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The hero may be able to cut through doors and other hard obstacles, or fashion bandages out of a shirt, or maybe even knock a streetlamp onto an enemy.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to do Superhero Gadgets Well 2009
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The street was empty and dark except for the yellow glow of one streetlamp at the end.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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The hero may be able to cut through doors and other hard obstacles, or fashion bandages out of a shirt, or maybe even knock a streetlamp onto an enemy.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » May 2009
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Some of the most arresting pictures are night scenes: a barn rising out of a snowy field, its roof luminous in the moonlight, or the crossroads, which Ault painted numerous times, ominous and uncanny in the raw light of a single streetlamp, hung overhead on a wire.
Austerity, Economy, Stillness Karen Wilkin 2011
Prolagus commented on the word streetlamp
Is this term in use as a synonym for streetlight?
January 14, 2009