streetlight
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRoadsstreetlightstreet‧light /ˈstriːtlaɪt/ (also streetlamp /-læmp/) noun [countable]
TTRa light at the top of a tall post in the streetExamples from the Corpusstreetlight• The accused pushed a motorbike 40 yards so that he could have a good look at it under a streetlight.• A streetlight beside an elementary school shed just enough light to let me make sense out of the map.• She could hear the adjacent streetlight sizzling like a radioactive isotope.• The glare of the nauseous streetlights which made the world faceless and colourless.• Your grandfather kept you busy explaining how the streetlight worked.• The boy pedaled slowly away under the streetlights, looking back with lingering reproach.• The deserted piazza glistened under the streetlights.• It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference.
TTRa light at the top of a tall post in the streetExamples from the Corpusstreetlight• The accused pushed a motorbike 40 yards so that he could have a good look at it under a streetlight.• A streetlight beside an elementary school shed just enough light to let me make sense out of the map.• She could hear the adjacent streetlight sizzling like a radioactive isotope.• The glare of the nauseous streetlights which made the world faceless and colourless.• Your grandfather kept you busy explaining how the streetlight worked.• The boy pedaled slowly away under the streetlights, looking back with lingering reproach.• The deserted piazza glistened under the streetlights.• It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference.- narrate
- narration
- narrative
- out of whack
- out of work
- out of your own pocket
- out of your shell
- out of/beyond (somebody’s) reach
- out of/beyond range (of something)
- out of/from left field
- out of/from nowhere
- out of/from/through the window
- out of/in deference to something
- out of/into alignment
- out on a limb
- out on the town
- out popped
- out somebody as something
- out take
- out the back
- out the door
- out the wazoo
- out there
- out through the door
- out through the window