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Definition of "lamp-posts" []

  • Plural form of lamp-post. (noun)

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Use "lamp-posts" in a sentence
  • "Many people have talked at length about giving our political system the 'Mussolini Stimulus', but a detailed survey has shown that most of this country's lamp-posts couldn't take the strain, and given the current state of the economy we could never afford enough piano wire ."
  • "If you haven't encountered it before, you might just over the next few days, as knitters across Britain celebrate wool week by "tagging" lamp-posts with knitted doilies, wrapping public statues in scarves and sending knitted animals scurrying about city streets."
  • "Thousands of manholes covers and lamp-posts along the route through Dublin have already been checked and sealed as part of the security operation."
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