gaslight

How To Use gaslight In A Sentence

• The cottage is fitted with electric light fixtures designed to resemble the original gaslight fixtures of the 1860s, and modern wiring and plumbing have been installed.
• Turning on the gaslight, hoping that he wouldn't notice the tatty furniture and peeling brown wallpaper, she stepped into his arms, tilting her head so that he had no choice but to bring his lips down onto hers.
• The color was particularly brilliant beneath the gaslight of the theater.
• If he is truly "gaslighting" you then he is not following the Christian guidelines of a marriage.
• Every touch is just right - from the titular gaslights, which flicker eerily in the darkness, to the intensely cramped Victorian-era London house that Paula and Gregory occupy.
• As late as the early 1900s, older houses with gaslight were still being retrofitted for electricity.
• Particularly notable is the open announcement that s/he would "gaslight" my predecessor to the bitter end, and explicitly telling untentured faculty that if s/he did not do EXACTLY as the bully said, said untenured faculty member would not be receiving tenure. Wired Campus
• The Revivalist home styles of the 1920s brought a craze for wall sconces - another gaslight derivative - but the fashion had largely died out by the end of that decade.
• The same decade saw the foundation of the South Kensington Museum, endowed with an exemplary collection for craftsmen to learn from, and soon lit by gaslight in order to encourage working people to visit the collections in the evening.
• Is this normal, or am I being gaslighted?