What is "streetlamp"

Usage examples of "streetlamp".

She had the absurd impression that by night, lanterns or no lanterns, streetlamps or no street lamps, it would not be visible at all.

When next she opened them, one of the nits sat inches from her face, watching with its dozen eyes, bright cuirass winking in the light of a nearby streetlamp.

Down in the street, outside the phonebox, there was a glint, a flash of orange streetlamp light reflected on shining metal.

As a photocell activated all the streetlamps simultaneously, he strolled along Ocean Avenue, looking in shop windows, getting a feel for the town.

For an hour he walked the streets of Moonlight Cove, deep into the residential neighborhoods, where there were no streetlamps and where trees and houses seemed to float within the mist, as if they were not rooted to the earth but tenuously tethered and in danger of breaking loose.

The streetlamps were lit, but not knowing London, Erast Fandorin very quickly lost his bearings among the tangle of identical stone buildings in this alien, menacingly silent city.

Before you can so much as glance over your shoulder the twilight has thickened from gray to brown and one in every two or three of the sparse streetlamps is already glowing.

It looked, in fact, exactly like the most respectable streets of Berlin or Vienna: asphalt, brand-new electric streetlamps, and substantial houses of several stories.

Away from the streetlamps, the strident colors of the walls sank into a dull assortment of grays.

It was after one in the morning and the streetlamps were haloed in fog.

Under new streetlamps that closely simulated daylight, tall elms warmed their fine June leaves.

Like Changan Avenue, Tiananmen was extremely well illuminated, with numerous tall streetlamps, each topped with branches of lights, about nine altogether and shaded in white opaque glass.

The guy was standing near one of the large carrotwoods across the street, beyond the brightest portion of the lightfall from a streetlamp but still vaguely illumined.

But she asks for it, lying there in a muddle sobbing, and outside, down in the town, a motor guns and he thinks of the air and the trees and streets stretching bare under the streetlamps and goes out the door.

For a long time she lay there, stiff, staring at the dark and newly ominous shapes of the bedroom furniture and at the window, where incompletely drawn draperies revealed a band of glass silvered by a fall of moonlight and by the rising beams of streetlamps below.