Use "bulb" in a sentence
bulb example sentences
bulb
1. An INTERROGATOR paces back and forth in front of them in the dark room, illuminated by a dim naked bulb in a socket hanging from a wire from the ceiling
2. Under the bare, low-wattage bulb hanging from the ceiling in the outer corridor, I had glimpsed a narrow passage running away from me as I knelt at the foot of the ladder
3. I tried to pick at the frame of the grill so that I could steal a stray beam of light from the bulb in the corridor, but all that I did was aggravate the pin prick wound in my finger from the bullet hole in the trunk of the car that had brought me here
4. At the turning area in the light from an old van and a single bulb in a shed, fifteen or so fishermen crunch on the gravel, concentrating hard whilst straightening coloured nets and winding spiky lines around their baskets with bare hands
5. We switched on the terrace bulb
6. From what he could feel the batteries couldn’t have fallen out … surely the bulb wouldn’t have broken in the fall
7. As he pushes open his front door the timer on the landing light clicks and the bare light bulb hanging from the faded glory of the servants' storey ceiling rose snuffs out
8. The light fixture above still had no bulb, and the room was still as
9. If George had been in a cartoon a giant light bulb would have appeared
10. Roman could’ve counted every bulb on the nights before, but
11. Me and Heather looked up as well, trying to see in that bright bulb in the
12. the bulb of my room, you would have gathered that I don’t
13. So one day when Circe let us out to feed, I pulled a bulb and ate it
14. Under the only light I could see, a weak bulb that lit only
15. None of the cells had windows, of course, but all contained a single light bulb that cast off a dull yellow glow
16. I don’t know how to do it, either, except that when the light bulb lit up in my head, I followed through
17. “Not the brightest bulb in the box, but a decent guy
18. While he waited for the others to arrive, Grey dug around in the earth for a bluebell bulb
19. (Bulb of candy thermometer should not rest on bottom of saucepan
20. The poor slob could just sit there, tied to a chair under a bare bulb surrounded by goons with clubs
21. Fin gave a shuddering sigh when the bulb gave out a weak glow
22. “Only one, but the light bulb really has to want to change,” he answered
23. The single bulb of the overhead light flickered uncertainly, made a valiant effort to revive and then simply died
24. Windows frosted with the cold let in some light, supplemented by a bulb with a large green shade hung over each of the tables at which the interpreters and their interviewees sat
25. The shop’s office was dingy, lit only by one bare low-wattage bulb hanging from the ceiling
26. The single hotel offered rooms with doors of nailed planks, cement floors, platforms of raw wood covered over with thin, flattened foam rubber as beds, a single, threadbare sheet, one frayed towel, no pillows, a bare bulb hanging from a spider web decorated wire, no window, no fan and walls partially covered in flaking, stained paint
27. What had at first looked like a bath of shiny and brilliant light revealed itself to be nothing more than a sickly yellowish light bulb
28. I hopped into the houpte and thought about what I could do to occupy myself for the rest of the day when the proverbial light bulb came on
29. Just the size to hold one bulb over water in its base, these vases allow a hyacinth to grow on a window sill, back-lit by sun so you can watch roots growing down into water while the nub-like protuberance of green on top grows into fleshy leaves and star-like flowers
30. I’ll top up the water level, keeping emerging roots wet up to the rounded bottom of the bulb
31. Here on the window sill, a fresh green nub on each brown bulb of hyacinth
32. No one owns the life which flows in him any more than the electric light bulb owns the current which gives it light
33. in the faint blue light cast by the bulb above a twin set of
34. light of the bulb overhead
35. But when getting run down by a bicycle delivery man didn’t do it, or being gored on the train, or gashed by a knife – when almost electrocuting herself just changing a light bulb, and even nearly drowning in the East River still didn’t do it, the one misfortune that Sierra considered so awful that it put an instant stop to her goading of Obeah practitioners, was an attack on the part of her body she valued the most
36. As mentioned earlier, today’s cars are fitted with HID bulb or Xenon lamp
37. the base of the urethral bulb near the prostate
38. orgasm, in which the seminal fluid is gathered in the urethral bulb
39. of the urethral bulb, adjacent to the prostate
40. Their spice was a bulbous plant with many kernels of the spice sheathed in the bulb
41. Devlin drops his camera and catches the hot bulb before it hits his face
42. The book cites such “madness” as the tulip mania in Holland in the 1600s when a tulip bulb might sell for more than a house
43. As in a city of lights, when one bulb burns out, it
44. He called me a high priced bulb changer
45. However, the previous night they had told me that she would last through the weekend, so at noon Saturday I was standing on a vanity in our upstairs bathroom putting in a new fluorescent bulb for my in-laws to be able to see after dark
46. The Big Dipper circled overhead during the dark season and its individual stars seemed as close as the sixty-watt bulb that lighted the entrance of the last barracks in the row
47. How does a bulb become the tulip
48. Is on the bulb
49. He was a dim bulb, to say the least, and lost any influence he might have had on the situation had he been a better man
50. root of a bulb
