striplight

Then I rolled on my back and lay there looking up at the striplight on the ceiling.

Incendiary Chris Cleave 2005

Simon had previously heard words such as 'action' and 'showcase' bashed forcibly into this unintended use like square pegs through round holes, but had until then been unaware that one could 'simultaneously desktop multiple homogenised throughput channels' (take more orders), or even 'striplight retro-referenced identifiers' (no idea, but the Tit was looking at the girl who booked ad space, if that helped).

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

After the darkness of the tunnel and the low, striplight flicker of the surge chamber, the transformer room made Ray feel like a pit-pony, stumbling dazed into the brightness.

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

Once outside, blinking in the striplight of the communication tunnel that linked the house with the control complex, Coleridge laid his hand on Carlisle's collar in time-honoured fashion, and asked him to accompany him to the station.

Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

On the last page I even appealed to him on personal grounds, although it was unlikely that any human sympathy could survive under the striplight, among the green eye-shades and the stereotyped phrases - "the good of the paper," "the situation de-mands …"

The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

It's a measure of how far things have come that I can go to a warehouse to watch a Japanese man make loud yet beautiful noises with a striplight and it be a fairly normal night out for me.

Pete Ashton Pete Ashton 2010

In later life, I would come to understand this process as consciousness-raising; at the time, it felt like a striplight had been switched on in my mind.

The Guardian World News Laurie Penny 2010