: a post supporting a usually outdoor lamp or lantern
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebFeet away from where Alissa King was shot, wilted balloons hang from a lamppost wrapped in red tape. Dan Frosch, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022 The cell-phone videos shared widely on social media show Detective Patrick Walsh shoving bystanders and knocking one headfirst into a lamppost.BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022 The house fire was so hot, the lamppost in front of the home is melted and warped. Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2022 Majors, stabbed four times, stumbled up the park steps before she was seen on surveillance video collapsing against a lamppost, dying on the sidewalk. Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2022 And of course a bunch of other stuff gets attracted to it, too—including a lamppost, a bulldozer, a giant cruise ship, and a rocket. Rhett Allain, Wired, 31 Dec. 2021 Above the cars, a metal lamppost and an apartment window also had what appeared to be bullet holes.oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2021 The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office posted video a deputy captured on patrol showing falling snowflakes bathed in the light of a lamppost in a store’s parking lot.sun-sentinel.com, 3 Jan. 2022 This may be a selling season, but one antique shop placed a selection of unwanted vinyl albums (think Ray Conniff Singers and pianist Roger Williams) next to a lamppost for the pickings. Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2021 See More