32 examples of street-lamp in sentences

Once she drew out, peering forward toward a street-lamp to inspect it.

A street-lamp shone on him.

On passing under a street-lamp they recognized each other.

He put out his head and saw a man writing something in a notebook with a pencil by the light of a street-lamp.

On a distant corner there was a street-lamp, burning dimly, and, without much thought of where he was going, the boy started toward it.

And the footsteps of Sarah Gailey pattered up the stone stairs; and the front door banged; and the skirts and feet of Sarah Gailey intercepted for an instant the light of the street-lamp that shone on the basement-window of the parlour.

To reduce the danger of going about after dark, street-lamps are needed.

It's a pretty place if you aren't looking for street-lamps and talking-machines.

So you thought you'd leave the street-lamps and come take a look at the stars?" They met and Sheila took the strong, square hand.

It is still and deserted there, except for a lone woman with a shawl over her head, trying to read, by the light of the street-lamp, the casualty lists.

The light from a street-lamp fell upon them and disclosed one with vivid red hair.

No street-lamps shed their light here, and the boys blundered along through the blackness with their hearts in their mouths.

She heard his voice when the door opened,by the street-lamp saw his face.

I read something in it, and then we all went to sit on the piazza, with the street-lamp shining through the bitter-sweet vine, as good as the moon, and the conversation naturally and easily turned on odd names.

The street-lamps sent up their rays, making the room semi-lucent.

An attempt was made to supply such wants by creating divers independent boards of commissioners, one for paving and draining, another for street-lamps and watchmen, a third for town-pumps, and so on.

Then suddenly his face, in the pale light of a street-lamp, became chalky white and knotted.

A stout policeman slouched under a street-lamp, swinging his club with a heavily gloved hand, and in the shadow of the loft-building entrance Rhona pointed out to Myra several ill-looking private detectives who danced up and down on their toes, blew their hands, smoked cigarettes, and kept tab of the time.

There was no gas in the place; but in the pause a distant street-lamp swung its light dimly round.

But as she paused, too, standing beneath the street-lamp, and he saw her with her nonchalant tilt of her head,that handsome head poised on her strong, erect body,her force and value were so impressed upon him that he had to retract.

Just before they reached it, Honoré stopped under the huge street-lamp, whose light had gone out, where a large stone lay before him on the ground in the narrow, moonlit street.

The street-lamps were neither many nor brightbut from the glazed gallery of the restaurant, a broad, cheerful illumination streamed upon the passers-by.

He inspected it anxiously at every street-lamp.

Presently he came to a dead stop, and as I continued to draw nearer, I saw him take out his watch and look at it by the light of a street-lamp.

I moved rapidly along toward the tall street-lamp that diffused a dim and murky light from its frost-crusted lantern at the corner of the square, and before I reached it I encountered the first danger of my undertaking.

32 examples of  street-lamp  in sentences