pilot light
Example Sentences
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One of the property’s residents told Pittsburgh ABC affiliate WTAE-TV that the victim was trying to turn on the pilot light on a furnace in the guest house when the building burst.
From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2023
That might be a sign that the pilot light on the heater has gone out.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023
As it had hundreds of times before in hundreds of previous matches, her opponent’s nerve lit Williams’s pilot light.
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2022
The basement floor — and water heater pilot light — are covered.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2019
However, he was alert, and he snapped open the spy hole, at the same time opening the tap that allowed a flow of naphtha past the pilot light in the buttress outside.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
