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fluorescents

n. (plural of fluorescent English)

Usage examples of "fluorescents".

Behind the translucent panels, the fluorescents had begun to glow weakly.

In the glow of the overhead fluorescents their faces were cheesy-looking and revolted.

Above, the fluorescents embedded in their long fixtures like inverted ice-cube trays threw a hard, shadowless light.

The fluorescents in the drugstore, which had burned night and day, were also gone.

There were dark fluorescents embedded in the tunnel's roof, and the blank glass eyes of closed-circuit TV cameras.

Stu said, thinking of Elder, and how Elder lurched after him in his nightmares, and of the corridors that never ended but only switched back on themselves, lit by cold fluorescents and filled with echoes.

As the man stepped into the glow of the flickering fluorescents, Stu saw that there was only a cold black shadow where his face should have been, a blackness punched by two soulless red eyes.

The overhead lights were long tubes of fluorescents, dim in visible output but rich in infrared for the grass that lined the floor.

Even in the unflattering overhead fluorescents of the chilly corridor she looked good.

Down in the long chilly tunnel, in the glare of the overhead fluorescents, Colt's skin looked bluish.

He put all doubts behind him as he hurried down the corridor, passing under the eerie bluish light of one set of fluorescents into the shadows between lamps and then back into the light again.

As he stared at it, set overhead between the fluorescents and some piping, he recognized Frank Colt's voice.

Working under the fluorescents, we reassembled and double-checked the tail assembly and unfolded the wings.

There was light from the edges of the hangar doors, but until I hit the switch for the fluorescents, the interior was a jumble of shadows.

I heard the generator kick in, and after a couple of seconds the fluorescents flickered back on.