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How to use lamp-post in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lamp-post? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He was leaning against the lamp-post waiting for a friend who would help him find a place to stay.
Pulling herself painfully up, she wobbled shakily on the cobbles, catching the icy metal of the lamp-post next to her to steady herself.
A mother has hit out at heartless thieves who stole her son's memorial from a lamp-post.
Awakened in the night, he learned that his long-time friend had crashed his vehicle into a lamp-post, and had died with two passengers.
Many would have thought that the Newspapers would have dropped their society diary author when he dinged his car against a lamp-post whilst leathered.
My son has been left in debt paying for a car that has been written off and we have been informed that the bill for the lamp-post could run into hundreds of pounds.
A Tullow woman tussled violently with her attackers as they attempted to steal her handbag before they dragged her along the road until she smacked her head off a lamp-post.
During a series of frank interviews at Alton police station, he admitted he had pushed a young Asian man he had seen apparently laughing at him near a lamp-post.
David Wackett, 25, tied a rope to a lamp-post and put a slip knot around his neck before climbing into his car.
George Martin was not too surprised to be accused of crashing a car into a lamp-post in Rochdale.
Examples from Classical Literature
But between you and me and the lamp-post, Elmer, I don't believe that's going to happen.
She pushed the lamp-post away from her violently, and found herself walking.
Flags were flying from every window, from every roof, from every lamp-post.
Sucatash, against the lamp-post, lolled negligently and rolled a cigarette.
But one day the tow-haired boy pulled the near rein too hard while rounding a corner and a wheel was smashed against a lamp-post.
She put out her hand just in time to steady herself against a lamp-post.
I will put the letter in a lamp-post box, so that he will never get it.
I think I saw a white whisker as he turned under the lamp-post.
He turns and addresses the lamp-post in a tone of superiority.
This cross-eyed, lop-eared loafer, lurching against the lamp-post!
We want a sewer here, a bridge there, a lamp-post or a hydrant yonder.
At the corner of the gloomy passage a rigged jib boom with a dolphin-striker ending in an arrow-head stuck out of the night close to a cast iron lamp-post.
He would have swum to shore with merely a feeling of amused self-reproach akin to that of the man who absent-mindedly walks into a lamp-post in the street.
But in an ulster he wants to get behind a lamp-post and call police.
I lunged gayly with my stick at a lamp-post and missed it, whereat a street-urchin grinned, and I winked at him and slipped twopence down his back.
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