lamppost
Origin of lamppost
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How to use lamppost in a sentence
You started walking along the road, getting closer to the lamppost, but your doppelgänger remained hidden.
Can You Hit These Riddles Out Of The Park? | Zach Wissner-Gross | October 15, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe entire time, your doppelgänger remained obscured by the lamppost.
Can You Hit These Riddles Out Of The Park? | Zach Wissner-Gross | October 15, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightYou start walking along the road, getting closer to the lamppost, but your doppelganger remains hidden.
Run fast from lamppost to lamppost along your route, easing off for an equal distance before ramping up again.
If Earth moved, as Copernicus held, then they expected to see nearby stars shifting in the sky as it did so, just as a lamppost appears to shift relative to the background hills as you cross the street.
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse | Natalie Wolchover | December 17, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
Chasen did not surrender her purse, jewelry, money, or car, but lurched leftward onto Whittier, where she crashed into a lamppost.
A few steps away some colored men were assembled about a lamppost, their laughter coming explosively, in repeated peals.
A Top-Floor Idyl | George van SchaickHe climbs a lamppost, and sets to work taking notes as fast as his pencil can fly.
Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.
The Devil's Dictionary | Ambrose BierceWell, as I strolled along I saw there was something going on round this lamppost.
The Stark Munro Letters | J. Stark MunroI leaned against a lamppost, my mind gravel-rashed, and waited for something that could be understood.
Waiting for Daylight | Henry Major Tomlinson
British Dictionary definitions for lamppost
/ (ˈlæmpˌpəʊst) /
a post supporting a lamp, esp in a street
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