How To Use Lamppost In A Sentence
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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
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The car caromed off several lampposts
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That'll dae," says the man, unwrapping the bubbly chocolate for the animal tied to the lamppost outside.
Life is sweet
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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?
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He was flatfooted, knock-kneed and didn't remotely move his hips, just waved his arms like a lamppost.
The Sun
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Peer through windows that last saw a chamois when George Formby was leaning on a lamppost at The Winter Gardens.
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He had already hit a lamppost and a car when he lost control of the van and turned it over.
The Sun
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Officers were told Richardson's car had mounted the kerb and it had been swerving before it collided with a lamppost.
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Before you can react, a being will pop out from behind a lamppost and jump onto you.
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A motorcross champion was killed when his speeding car exploded into a fireball after crashing into a lamppost on a waterlogged road.
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anchor the lamppost in concrete
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Gangs of yobs have caused more than £40,000 of damage after wrecking 34 lampposts in York suburbs in a fortnight.
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There should be only one penalty for unethical behavior of any kind by an elected official: public hanging, preferably from a lamppost outside the Capitol building.
Conyers' office reacts to reports of wife's guilty plea
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The dog cocked its leg ( against the lamppost ), ie in order to urinate.
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So these Kings and Queens entered the thicket, and before they had gone a score of paces they all remembered that the thing they had seen was called a lamppost, and before they had gone twenty more they noticed that they were. making their way not through branches but through coats.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Council workers are filling in around the new lampposts and repairing chipped kerbing and cracked pavements.
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Among the grandest was Chicago's Union Station, a huge vault filled with gilt lampposts and flags large enough to drape the coffin of a patriotic diplodocus.
Amtrak adventures
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A badly-injured soldier had to be airlifted to hospital after his car smashed into a lamppost.
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They chained themselves to lampposts in protest at the judge's decision.
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My effigy burned from a lamppost.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is thought a burning moped had been left up against the lamppost, causing the electrics to short circuit.
The Sun
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Mother crashed the motorbike into the lamppost
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Officers were told Jacobson's car had mounted the kerb and it had been swerving before it collided with a lamppost.
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I will climb that lamppost naked if you want.
Times, Sunday Times
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One man nearly crashed his car and another banged into a lamppost.
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A resident in Meggeson Avenue said: ‘I think the car knocked down a lamppost and somersaulted quite a few times.’
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The dark was broken only by a few dinky lampposts here and there along the stretch of bumpy road.
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The dog cocked its leg ( against the lamppost ), ie in order to urinate.
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The extreme sport involves vaulting between roofs and off lampposts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surreal lamppost sculptures, "Composition Exubérante de Réverbères Hybrides," by Niçois artists Pascal Pinaud and Stéphane Magnin, are true to their name -- in English, exuberant hybrid streetlamps -- and light up the university quarter of Saint-Jean d'Angely.
Tram Transports City of Nice with Art
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And on cars, lampposts and any other surface, for that matter.
The Sun
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Dictators take these “deals” because the alternative is that they may end up strung up to a lamppost.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law”
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Onlookers told how it swerved out of control and hit a lamppost and street signs before careering into a delicatessen.
The Sun
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He was doing twice the 30mph limit when he hit a lamppost and a tree.
The Sun
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But you will get a nasty bruise on the back of your head when you crash into a lamppost.
The Sun
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As Titta watches impassively through the window of his hotel room, a suited man in the traffic island below, distracted by the sight of a passing woman, walks smack bang into a lamppost.
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The eruv is a symbolic fence made by stringing translucent fishing wire across the tops of lampposts and also including buildings that are adjacent to one another as part of the boundary.
NYT > Home Page
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Photocopies of this portrait are plastered on every bus shelter and lamppost and thumbtacked on every post office and public school bulletin board.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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This weekend police will display notices on lampposts in and around the triangular zone explaining how the orders work.
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The extreme sport involves vaulting between roofs and off lampposts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man ran well for his size, and just before the guards could reach out to him, catapulted around a lamppost and went off on a tangent.
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Other flyers were still fluttering from lampposts and stuck on empty buildings, some with candles guttering out beneath them.
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There are these classy amber lampposts outfitted all over the historic part of campus.
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Workers set about fixing the tacky decorations on lampposts as stunned onlookers enjoyed the summer sunshine.
The Sun
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But you will get a nasty bruise on the back of your head when you crash into a lamppost.
The Sun
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The IntelliStreets "smart" lamppost is the product of the imagination of Ron Harwood, principal and creative director of Illuminating Concepts, based in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills.
W. David Stephenson: IntelliStreets: Digital Scaffolding for 'Smart' Cities
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He had wanted to bolt it onto a lamppost, but council planning officers refused permission.
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‘The car had rear ended and literally wrapped itself round the lamppost,’ he said.
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According to reports, the 56-year-old was driving a McLaren F1 super car when it spun around several times, ran into a tree and a lamppost and caught fire.
Rowan Atkinson injured in car crash
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As dusk became night time, the crowd lit candles and tied flowers to lampposts.
The Sun
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A few weeks ago, flyers advertising a missing person appeared on lampposts and trees in our street and around the neighbourhood.
Times, Sunday Times
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a lamppost was there and then it wasn't snow started to spit and lemons fell like pale tears while we stood and talked of all that had passed silent between us and you laughing suggested we make love in midair over the angry Italian chop
Falling
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The camera was transmitting to a video camera and receiver stashed in the pannier of a bicycle locked to a lamppost nearby.
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For the first week, Emma paced at night and watched a late snow curl in drifts around the mailbox at the corner and the lamppost beneath her window.
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I've found her with clenched fists, kicking walls and lampposts.
The Sun
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She also crashed into two lampposts, a shop front and two adjoining cars in the process.
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“Yetta, Yetta, Yetta,” Rahel said in a singsongy voice, playfully swinging around a lamppost.
Uprising
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But you will get a nasty bruise on the back of your head when you crash into a lamppost.
The Sun
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And it shows: almost every lamppost is adorned with yellow signs pointing the way to new developments.
Repossession capital of England still trying to build its way out of trouble
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As well as the usual beer cans and plastic wrappers, Mr Burke regularly walked past rusting bike frames, an old scooter, an oil drum, and even an abandoned lamppost.
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But you will get a nasty bruise on the back of your head when you crash into a lamppost.
The Sun
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In his hurry he ran his head against a lamppost.
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Officials said that the coach was thought to have clipped a kerb before hitting a lamppost and a tree and then overturning.
Times, Sunday Times
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As dusk became night time, the crowd lit candles and tied flowers to lampposts.
The Sun
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Officials said that the coach was thought to have clipped a kerb before hitting a lamppost and a tree and then overturning.
Times, Sunday Times
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I came off my motorbike two years ago and had a bad groin injury after hitting a lamppost.
The Sun
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An army rifleman based in Warminster has been banned from driving for three months after crashing his car into a lamppost.
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Richard was having a panic attack on Fifth Avenue, clutching a lamppost with arms that bulged like tin drums.
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Flyposting, in which fliers are put up on shop windows, walls, lampposts and other street furniture, has been homed in on by the council for the past six months.
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The New York Post quoted one witness as saying, “The Ferarri took a sharp right to the left and lost it, swerving across the lanes, taking out a lamppost and a newsstand” before crashing into the pizza parlor.
P2pnet World Headlines – May 6, 2009
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Richard was having a panic attack on Fifth Avenue, clutching a lamppost with arms that bulged like tin drums.
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It is understood the car mounted a pavement and struck a lamppost but then sped off.
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The car mounted a pavement, crashed into the side of a dry cleaning shop then hit a lamppost in May last year.
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Richard first noticed me from across the street as he loosened his grip on the lamppost.
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When was the last time a lamppost was a terrorist target?
From Hunger
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Emerging from a Calcutta shopping mall, where consumerism reigned in all its garish vulgarity, I noticed a large placard attached to the nearest lamppost: Female foeticide is illegal.
Archive 2005-03-01
