heat lamp
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The menu offers Soviet comfort food, with sausages, potato salad, soups including borscht and sour cream, and dessert with cherry and sour cream dumplings, all shining under a heat lamp.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2023
Compared to the cheeseburger wrapped in foil and kept under a heat lamp that I’d eaten the last time I went skiing, it was downright luxurious.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
"I'm not happy about it, but I have to make firm choices, because financially the heat lamp is on all day."
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2022
On Christmas Day 2019, a 45-year-old tortoise in Essex, England, knocked a heat lamp onto its bedding and started a fire while its owners were out of the house.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022
Bo keeps to himself in the kitchen, but we play a game of Catch Me If You Can with our eyes over the heat lamp counters.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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