Examples of lamppost in a Sentence
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The stork took flight, did a loop to surveil the boat and perched on a lamppost near the bank.
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Safak Timur Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Paunch, who has become less timid, has a proclivity to stop and nose out every possible tree trunk, lamppost, and plinth before gracing it with a tag of his urine.
—Sierra Greer, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
There were lampposts, too, with soft pools of light.
—Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
In 2017, a photo of a Russian police officer trying to pull two young boys down from a lamppost in Pushkin Square in the center of Moscow became a symbol for Navalny supporters across the country.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
On a gray weekend day in November, the bird showed up on a dumpster near the Wendy’s, then on various lampposts, roofs, and snow mounds.
—Ash Adams, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024
An investigation from the Vermont State Police is currently underway after a lamppost and an art sculpture were stolen from the movie's set in East Corinth.
—Shania Russell and Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 July 2023
State police received an initial report on July 14 that someone had driven a pickup truck up to a large lamppost topped with a distinctive pumpkin decoration, removed it, loaded it into the truck, covered it with a tarp and fled the scene at high speed.
—Shania Russell and Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 July 2023
Glass, who wore hiking boots and an I.D. card on a lanyard, wanted to see how most of the garden’s hundred and fifty or so lampposts could be shut off each night, so that their light wouldn’t interfere with Lightscape.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
Safak Timur Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Paunch, who has become less timid, has a proclivity to stop and nose out every possible tree trunk, lamppost, and plinth before gracing it with a tag of his urine.
—Sierra Greer, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
There were lampposts, too, with soft pools of light.
—Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
In 2017, a photo of a Russian police officer trying to pull two young boys down from a lamppost in Pushkin Square in the center of Moscow became a symbol for Navalny supporters across the country.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
On a gray weekend day in November, the bird showed up on a dumpster near the Wendy’s, then on various lampposts, roofs, and snow mounds.
—Ash Adams, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024
An investigation from the Vermont State Police is currently underway after a lamppost and an art sculpture were stolen from the movie's set in East Corinth.
—Shania Russell and Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 July 2023
State police received an initial report on July 14 that someone had driven a pickup truck up to a large lamppost topped with a distinctive pumpkin decoration, removed it, loaded it into the truck, covered it with a tarp and fled the scene at high speed.
—Shania Russell and Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 July 2023
Glass, who wore hiking boots and an I.D. card on a lanyard, wanted to see how most of the garden’s hundred and fifty or so lampposts could be shut off each night, so that their light wouldn’t interfere with Lightscape.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
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“Lamppost.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lamppost. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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lamppost
noun
lamp·post
ˈlam(p)-ˌpōst 
: a post supporting a usually outdoor lamp or lantern
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