How to Use lava lamp in a Sentence

lava lamp

noun
  • Pot, protests, and Cher are back, so why not lava lamps?
    — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Here, there's a pink-and-red combo that makes the tips of your nails look like lava lamps.
    — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Here, there's a pink-and-red combo that makes the tips of your nails look like lava lamps.
    — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
  • There is also a 10-foot lava lamp.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The idea is similar to the process that unfolds inside a lava lamp.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2025
  • There will also be an interactive videoscape that mimics a lava lamp.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
  • From throwback toys and board games to retro record players and quirky pop-culture finds like lava lamps, these timeless picks connect generations.
    — Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Aura nails are ethereal, groovy, and as effortlessly hypnotizing as a lava lamp.
    — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 19 June 2026
  • Contemplating passing seasons and dead flowers, Weir’s deep, lava lamp-like flow of a vocal is as sadly ruminative as Barlow’s lyrics.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Mathos, the lighting company Walker founded in 1963 to manufacture his creation, still makes lava lamps.
    — Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The other claims that early Earth was too hot for rigid plates, and that crust instead formed above mantle plumes rising from deep within the planet, a phenomenon comparable, Johnson said, to the wax blobs rising inside a lava lamp.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026
  • The waterfront warehouse was transformed into what looked like the inside of a lava lamp for Lesh’s first of three back-to-back the Heart of Town shows, adorned with huge psychedelic tapestries lining the walls and colorful lights flooding the space.
    — Zara Irshad, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The Science Made Magic event allows participants to create glowing lava lamps and make kaleidoscopes, using STEAM properties.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026

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