How to Use lamppost in a Sentence

lamppost

noun
  • His largest piece is a life-size lamppost.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
  • He was found hanging from a lamppost, his coat wrapped around his neck.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • By evening, more corpses had been strung up from the station’s lampposts.
    — Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • The stork took flight, did a loop to surveil the boat and perched on a lamppost near the bank.
    — Safak Timur Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The house fire was so hot, the lamppost in front of the home is melted and warped.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2022
  • The streets were closed off and baskets of flowers hung from the lampposts.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Three of the lampposts have been damaged in the last year, Miller said.
    — Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 25 Nov. 2019
  • What good is a ball striking a lamppost from 60 if no one is around to see it?
    — Dan Robson, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The Cat and the Hat balloon hit a lamppost due to high winds.
    — Olivia Putnal, Woman's Day, 19 Nov. 2010
  • The trees behind it are scorched and a lamppost is entirely knocked over.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Then out walked four living lampposts covered head to toe in houndstooth, a globe in each hand.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • In the footage, sparks fly and protesters exclaim, then cheer, when the lamppost falls.
    — Sidney Fussell, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Flags hung from town lampposts, from house porches, and in cemeteries.
    — Robert M. Williamson, Orlando Sentinel, 1 July 2024
  • Gio died after falling out of the minivan and striking his head on a lamppost.
    — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • On a sunny day last week, posters for a 5k Fun Run hung from lampposts.
    — Marwa Eltagouri, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • The grounds are tiered, with mature landscaping, lawns and lampposts.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The abundance of sturdy lampposts signals that these spaces are open around the clock.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Barney hit a lamppost, was punctured, and crashed onto the handlers.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Video showed fans even climbing onto lampposts and hanging onto street signs to watch the parade.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The total number of bulbs is 309 because some lampposts have two globes.
    — Deborah Vankin, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to the top of the park’s lampposts.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • There are Palestinian flags stuck on most lampposts, with many posters for the contest defaced.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
  • The fliers were found Thursday on cars and lampposts around Washington.
    — The Associated Press, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
  • Late for the Sky, with a lamppost in the yard and an early-model Chevrolet parked at the curb.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 3 June 2021
  • When the park’s yellow uprights were removed, Aubrey turned to a grey lamppost in the middle of a wide field.
    — Dan Robson, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • These surveys take advantage of the sun as a lamppost that illuminates the dark space near us.
    — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 6 June 2021
  • The photographer hid by the side of the road to capture the image, which was lit only by a nearby lamppost.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Gosling spins around the lamppost like Gene Kelly did in Singin' in the Rain.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Even the lampposts, seen in images of the protests and crackdown, are the same though most are now mounted with surveillance cameras.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2019
  • Water laps the underside of historic bridges, and treetops and lampposts poke out of the brown, swirling Seine.
    — Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018

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