miner's lamp
Example Sentences
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He later recalled using a coal miner’s lamp to keep working after dark.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2020
News accounts also reported that an open miner’s lamp may have touched off a small gas explosion, which then ignited a larger coal-dust blast.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2015
Ilasaca produced two hard hats and a miner’s lamp from a backpack, and we headed in.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
The disaster at Park Slip exactly 122 years ago is thought to have started because of a faulty miner's lamp.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2014
Ned shrugged, opening the lower chamber of his miner’s lamp and dropping in a small handful of little white cubes.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
