How to Use lamplight in a Sentence

lamplight

noun
  • We could see the glow of lamplight in the window.
  • The image of my cozy self in a soft puddle of smoky lamplight grieves me.
    — Katherine Dunn, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • Check them in the morning and afternoon sun and evening lamplight.
    — Katy Kiick Condon, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Near the center of the painting is an open sewing box with a vivid red lining that catches the lamplight.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • It is bathed in soft lamplight throughout the day and suffused by the smell of incense and soap, a gentle woodsy odor.
    — Kim Velsey, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • Attracted by lamplights along the bridge, the insects swarm the area in a fluttering cloud of white wings.
    — National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2016
  • The selfie camera works fine, capturing my dog under dim lamplight just fine.
    — PCMAG, 30 May 2024
  • And these ancient stones are even more beautiful and enigmatic at night, when the lamplights glow, and the busloads of tourists are long gone.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2025
  • And these ancient stones are even more beautiful and enigmatic at night, when the lamplights glow, and the busloads of tourists are long gone.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2026
  • The girl had disappeared on a stretch of path no more than fifty feet long before the bend that would have allowed Phillip to see the lamplight.
    — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The lamplights still smiled like yellow orbs, and the cold bit just enough to feel on their cheeks, but the dusting of snow had sucked away all the usual exhaust and smoke.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 May 2025
  • The finale’s big reveal In the Irvine family’s home, lamplight settles over a night on edge.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Place Dauphine, at the west end, sits comfortable in lamplight, a secure upper-class corner of Paris.
    — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • Sitting in those hotel rooms, in lobbies, reading a strange newspaper in the poor lamplight; taking a walk down a street in the evening, smoking?
    — Cheryl Strayed, New York Times, 1 May 2017
  • Community health workers told us about delivering babies by lamplight or the light from a cellphone.
    — Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • All that moonlight over dewy grass and lamplight on Parisian streets create texture for the flawed adults who walk through these scenes, for their misguided sense of propriety.
    — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • To confirm their light-sensing role, the researchers covered the centipedes’ antennae with tinfoil, blocking their exposure to the lamplight.
    — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The festivities began with a tea reception at the Hotel Chelsea, where the storied hallways glowed with lamplight.
    — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The Champagne was waiting at our outdoor table, which offered a ringside seat to a glowing sunset and the rising lamplight of villages on the other side of the lake.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2024
  • One enterprising truffle dealer seems to conduct all of his transactions in dark alleyways, lit by headlights or lamplight spilling from a nearby window.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Back in the 1850s, offices were mostly dark little cave rooms populated by a handful of depressed men in brown suits working by gas lamplight.
    — Rachel Handler, Curbed, 26 Apr. 2021
  • At other moments, tunnelers suddenly broke through into passageways dug by enemy teams, and hand-to-hand combat followed by lamplight.
    — Gl Archive, National Geographic, 6 June 2017
  • In shrouding mists and unforgiving lamplight alike, Gurbán finds a startling range of color within the monochromatic palette.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Many share photos online of its old-fashioned buildings blanketed in snow and illuminated by lamplight that create a nostalgic atmosphere.
    — Afp, Fortune Asia, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Figures silhouetted against lamplight in tight interiors appear to merge with background wallpaper and nearby furniture.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • And last Sunday, in the span of just 30 seconds, a troubled 24-year-old turned the historic Oregon District’s charming lamplight streets into a killing field.
    — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019

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