light bulb
an electric light.
Origin of light bulb
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How to use light bulb in a sentence
One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory.
His bright idea turned out to be the incandescent light bulb, which he invented in 1880.
Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb.
American Dreams: Saul Bellow’s Masterpiece of Lamentation | Nathaniel Rich | July 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2007, the Bush administration signed a measure that would finally bring the light bulb into the 21st century.
The Chicken Littles Are Wrong: Environmental Regulations Always Spur Innovation | Daniel Gross | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“There was no light bulb moment, it was just something I was drawn to,” Gomperts told The Daily Beast in Austin.
Vessel's Dr. Rebecca Gomperts on Providing Abortions to Women in International Waters | Marlow Stern | March 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Art without inspiration is our electric light bulb disconnected from the main current.
Spirit and Music | H. Ernest HuntThe vast misty cloud was plainly visible, glowing with a milky light like some vast frosted light bulb.
Islands of Space | John W CampbellThere was only one small light bulb hanging about forty feet up on the ceiling.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonThe floor was littered with papers, and a single electric light bulb relieved the gloom of the unsavory place.
The Oakdale Affair | Edgar Rice BurroughsThey stopped under a broken sign of black letters on greyish glass, within which one feeble electric light bulb made a red glow.
One Man's Initiation--1917 | John Dos Passos
British Dictionary definitions for light bulb
a glass bulb containing a gas, such as argon or nitrogen, at low pressure and enclosing a thin metal filament that emits light when an electric current is passed through it: Sometimes shortened to: bulb
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