How to Use gaslight in a Sentence

gaslight

1 of 2 noun
  • To get out of or to stop a gaslight, take one step at a time, Stern says.
    — Sarah Digiulio /, NBC News, 13 July 2018
  • Buildings, trees, gaslights, fences and church steeples were covered by snow.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Jewish wisdom does not ask us to gaslight ourselves in the name of peace.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Klepper said in a distorted voice, as the camera zoomed in on the gaslight.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2017
  • Its rooftop cupola was reproduced as a reminder of the gaslight era.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 15 May 2021
  • Perhaps gaslight and narcissist are headed there too.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • So Dickens says, on this day when the sun seems to have died, and the haggard glow of gaslight can barely brighten the mist.
    — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Paris, with its gaslight glamour, its yawning new boulevards, its tremors of social discord, just down the river.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Josephine's memories included homework done by kerosene gaslight during her school years.
    — sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The titular gaslights in Paula's home are actually a way out for the victim.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In George Smith’s time, the museum lacked not only electrical light, but gaslight as well.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Johannes acts as a stand-in for all the shitty men women in music have to deal with, the ones who condescend, belittle, mansplain, and gaslight.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But these images are also stagy and contrived, as if his birds are players on a stage, dramatically illuminated in the glow of gaslight.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In discussing these books, Wolff explores the profound impact of gaslight and the development of projection technologies on opera.
    — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
  • In discussing these books, Wolff explores the profound impact of gaslight and the development of projection technologies on opera.
    — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The series includes Sloan’s famous etching of a woman kneeling in her nightgown while turning down a gaslight before joining her lover amid the rumpled sheets of their bed.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Its brilliant gaslights, its sociable tables, with their little games, its cheery warmth in winter, its iced beverages and cool halls in summer, all invite and welcome his entrance.
    — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 6 Jan. 2018
  • There is no photograph of the hallway, barely illuminated by a flickering gaslight that hides everything that is unlovely.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • For years, the gaslight has been used as a symbol of Park Ridge, appearing on the city’s website and quarterly newsletter, the Spokesman.
    — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The 54-year-old woman was waiting for a bus the morning of June 30, a Sunday, in Clifton's gaslight district.
    — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Friedman has matched that sensibility here with songs that slide from lilting, gaslight-era melodiousness into a jagged, more contemporary anxiety.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The larger of the two is lined with ivy and gaslights, and features an outdoor fireplace with a 75-inch TV above the mantle, a heated canopy, hot tub with an awning and barbecue area.
    — Vivian Marino, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • Illumination from two rows of gaslights is carefully calibrated and distributed.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • This stretch of the park, an object of fascination for Urbano, contains an array of a hundred or so different models of public gaslights, now obsolete and semi-derelict.
    — Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • When uber-hypesters gaslight web3 as hype and the holders of some of the most centralized crypto-currencies talk incessantly of decentralization, this eclipse should come as no surprise.
    — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The fear of candles may date back to the period before electricity when theaters relied on candles, torches, and gaslight for illumination, and these posed a serious fire hazard.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Historically, the Kirklands would be using gaslight, so production presented their lighting at a lower visual level, using gas-era torchères.
    — Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2025
  • By the time Brassaï began photographing, gaslights had mostly been replaced by electricity, but Brassaï made very sophisticated use of the new electric streetlamps to give his pictures atmosphere.
    — William Meyers, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2018
  • Dinner in lamplit Gastown Cobblestone streets lit by old-world, gaslight-style streetlamps lend a romantic atmosphere to dinner and drinks in historic Gastown, once the city’s meatpacking district.
    — Chloe Bergé, AFAR Media, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The body is barely cold when the wheels of the government’s cover-up machinery start turning, with an army of judicial and security officials united in their joint goal to gaslight and discredit Jurek, the crime’s only honest witness.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021

gaslight

2 of 2 verb
  • The best way to thrive is not to gaslight ourselves.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The ruling class can no longer gaslight the public about their crimes.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, the only thing that seemed to reduce adults’ bias against kids was to gaslight them.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2019
  • People who have this push and punish, and then gaslight their partner.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • When the one friend says your boyfriend is gaslighting you, what's her example?
    — Love Letters.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • It’s being used by the abusers to gaslight people that are trying to advocate to keep them silent.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There are few examples of gaslighting more obvious than this.
    — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 1 June 2018
  • Instead of gaslighting us, that would have gone a lot further than any conviction to healing in this country.
    — August Brown, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
  • But that will be the most literal gaslighting imaginable, a lie of real gravity.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • That Pelosi refuses to acknowledge this almost feels like gaslighting.
    — Elizabeth Spiers, The New Republic, 24 July 2019
  • So, the next time someone tries to gaslight you by asserting the authority of a mythical being over your own reading, call it out.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Like the makers of the earlier Saw movies, Jigsaw's creators seem to delight in trying to gaslight you.
    — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Nuance and careful reasoning are not the tools of the oppressor, meant to deceive and gaslight and undermine and distract.
    — Jessica Floum, OregonLive.com, 6 Nov. 2017
  • Autumn’s disappearance, Tate writes in the author’s note, is a metaphor for the way victims are so often gaslighted and shamed.
    — Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • For two and a half hours, Buckley is mostly alone onscreen with these many men who attack her, mock her, flash her, lurk outside her windows, gaslight her, blame her.
    — Jordan Kisner, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • This particular flavor of gaslighting dates back several decades.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • While the Feds gaslight the American public, Florida pushes for the truth.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • American Airlines seems to be gaslighting its employees over fashion.
    — Erin Griffith, Fortune, 11 July 2017
  • Your crappy ex-boyfriend may still be trying to gaslight you, but the idea doesn’t provide a useful framework for understanding where society is headed next.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Do not be shamed, bullied, gaslighted or intimidated into tolerating it, not even for fear of upsetting your cousin.
    — Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Given the strength of feeling in British politics right now, that opinion could uncharitably be described as gaslighting.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In an incredible act of gaslighting, the Hall leadership tried to pass off this tokenism as diversity, and many media outlets fell for it.
    — Evelyn McDonnell, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, those posts, too, inspired ire from their followers, who claimed Hart was lying and trying to gaslight them.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2022
  • When somebody is gaslighted, they are manipulated to doubt themselves and their concerns through a gradual twisting of narrative.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 12 June 2019
  • Alan tells Camille in tonight’s Sharp Objects, accusing her—in a classic bit of Crellin gaslighting—of making her mother ill.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2018
  • However, tensions flare when Reza is seen accusing Mike of trying to gaslight him, and all of the drama reaches a peak in the very last moments of the trailer.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • In her latest research, Sweet is looking at how parents, for example, might gaslight their own teenage children when talking about experiences of childhood abuse.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Reaction from the climate community, which has spent decades watching Exxon actively bury climate research and gaslight the public, ranged from anger to eye-rolls.
    — Brentan Alexander, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • His words and actions target, question, and attack our empathy, challenging us on our sense of community and gaslighting our sense of togetherness.
    — Danielle Campoamor, Teen Vogue, 12 June 2018
  • And gaslighting is just one under-the-radar tactic abusers use to undermine a woman's sense of worth, confidence and independence, preventing her from reaching out for help or leaving.
    — Ginny Graves, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2019

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