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street lamp

n. (context countable English) streetlight.

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street lamp

n. a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street [syn: streetlight]

Usage examples of "street lamp".

The street lamp at the corner of Old Mill Road and Fear Street had burned out, and huge shadows grew on every side of her.

Brandt couldn't see if the moon shone in the sky or if a street lamp lit up the road outside.

If he had not had to rush out of the rain he might have noticed the street lamp just outside the house.

I was after him, not bothering to touch terra firma, letting him see me poised for an instant under the street lamp as he turned the corner.

The light of the street lamp settled on her white hair, her face in shadow.

It had turned the next corner, where a street lamp shone greenly, not a hundred yards ahead.

There was a street lamp nearby, and enough light filtered down for him to make out that the kitchen was deserted, as was the breakfast room whose window looked out onto the garden.

Kaleidoscopic glimpses of the interior of the car flashed across my retinae - the face of the driver above the seat-squab and the play of light through the open door from a street lamp and the eyes of the woman Yasma, as bright as the blade that was rising again, this time in her left hand.

He walked across the street, stepping quickly in and out of the smudge of light thrown by a lone, remarkably, unshattered street lamp.

Venus in the west was as bright as a street lamp, as bright as life, as bright as Miss Huntress' eyes, as bright as a bottle of Scotch.

Perhaps it was, when he was fast asleep on his lumpy mattress with the light from a street lamp streaming into the room.

He went on, passing still between the homes of white people, from street lamp to street lamp, the heavy shadows of oak and maple leaves sliding like scraps of black velvet across his white shirt.

Then she saw the girls in their bright yellow rain slickers on the right-hand sidewalk, standing under a street lamp.