heat lamp
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the burger you buy has suffered from being wrapped and left under a heat lamp, with the result that the bun is a bit squashed, she suggests.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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
On “The Tonight Show,” Fallon wondered whether Trump has “been living at Mar-a-Lago or under a heat lamp at Golden Corral.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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
Then they turned on a heat lamp, and watched as the jar with the aluminum foil lid got hotter than the one with no lid on it.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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