[
UK
/lˈæmpəʊst/
]
[ US /ˈɫæmˌpoʊst, ˈɫæmpˌpoʊst/ ]
[ US /ˈɫæmˌpoʊst, ˈɫæmpˌpoʊst/ ]
NOUN
- a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight)
How To Use lamppost In A Sentence
- It was a dismal picture—the light was bleak and the cloud-capped sky was gauzy and pale; the buildings and lampposts were smears of charcoal. The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
- The car caromed off several lampposts
- That'll dae," says the man, unwrapping the bubbly chocolate for the animal tied to the lamppost outside. Life is sweet
- But who's to say he wouldn't have made it up there had a taxi cab not slammed into a lamppost in peasoup fog?
- He was flatfooted, knock-kneed and didn't remotely move his hips, just waved his arms like a lamppost. The Sun
- Peer through windows that last saw a chamois when George Formby was leaning on a lamppost at The Winter Gardens.
- He had already hit a lamppost and a car when he lost control of the van and turned it over. The Sun
- Officers were told Richardson's car had mounted the kerb and it had been swerving before it collided with a lamppost.
- Before you can react, a being will pop out from behind a lamppost and jump onto you.
- A motorcross champion was killed when his speeding car exploded into a fireball after crashing into a lamppost on a waterlogged road.