How to Use oil lamp in a Sentence

oil lamp

noun

• The headmaster climbed onto the stage and lighted a tall brass oil lamp.
  — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
• Aside from the fireplace, only the Sun, Moon or an oil lamp or candle provided light.
  — Bobbi Sutherland, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
• Welcome back eclectic wall designs, oil lamp fixtures and wobbly wooden tables.
  — Melina Khan, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
• Twenty-seven centuries later, a tech firm in western India built a robotic arm that performs āratī, rotating an oil lamp before a deity’s icon to dispel darkness.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
• That night’s moon, nearly full, would be bright enough to light the path, but for safety and comfort the children would be given a hurricane lamp—not a real oil lamp, a naturalist added, but a battery-run one so that there was no fire hazard.
  — Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
• The man was also carrying an oil lamp, a small iron ring and 10 bronze coins, personal objects that offer insight into his final moments as well as daily life in Pompeii before the catastrophe.
  — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
• The man was also carrying an oil lamp, a small iron ring and 10 bronze coins, personal objects that offer insight into his final moments as well as into daily life in Pompeii before the catastrophe.
  — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026