Sentence Examples

1. The overhead bulb flickered to life, a dull yellow filling shelves and crates.
2. A bulb hung from the ceiling, brighter than the rest of the lanterns, but still not reaching the corners of the room, leaving them cast in shadow.
3. There stood Lisa, back lit by a single dim bulb dangling from bare wires in the hall.
4. Clutching the scissors tighter, he quickly moved the bigger pieces of broken bulb from the top of the stairs.
5. After that, he got the knack and worked out the right buttons to press in order to speed up the microfiche as it shrieked through the mechanism, the smell of plastic growing stronger as the internal bulb heated.
6. As the cable car pulled in, a light bulb went off in my head about how I could introduce myself to Coach Oliver.
7. Some of the fixtures flickered to life while others remained out and one even had a light bulb explode.
8. At the centre of the room, under a naked light bulb hanging from a worn flex, were a high lean-back mauve chair and two smaller wooden chairs, one a hard-back Chippendale repro more suited to dining.
9. Only one bulb is working, leaving the back of the room in shadows.
10. There was a burned-out bulb on one end of the hall, and the only door opened was the one belonging to the bath.