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kerosene lamp

noun as in hurricane lamp

noun as in lamp

noun as in lantern

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Example Sentences

Where electric current is available, it can be used to heat an incubator much better and cleanlier than the kerosene lamp.

By the light of the kerosene lamp she leaned over and examined the figures.

The light came from a kerosene lamp in the hands of an immense woman whose mild blue eyes beamed on Elliott.

There is full light,—a big kerosene lamp with a wide burner and a light yellow shade, besides two lighted candles.

Still the gas flame is less steady than that of the kerosene lamp, and is therefore less serviceable for reading.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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