Sentences with phrase «where street lamps»

The alert gun used to scare me at first, going off without warning in the middle of a still night, so that I woke to the sound of front doors slamming and men's feet running outside on the dark pavements where the street lamps no longer shone.

Not exact matches

It's exactly like the old joke about the guy who is searching for his lost keys under the nearest street lamp: not because that's where he thinks he lost them but because the light is so much better there.

Sort of like the fellow who dropped his wallet on a dark sidewalk and then walked back two blocks to look for it under the last street lamp he passed because that's where the light was!

An active part of society since its birth, hip - hop started on the streets with block parties, where speakers were plugged into lamp posts and emerging artists performed in a bid to break down racial barriers.

The number of specimens attracted depends on the position of the street lamp: on the border of dark zones, more moths are attracted to the light than in an area's centre where many lamps are used.

In this place, where the night is still dark, Hölker and his colleagues installed street lamps and insect traps in a confined area.

In the morning, there is the sun but during the night we have street lamps and other sources of light to show the way or we would surely stumble in the dark, oblivious to where we're going.

Cinematographer Brett Pawlak captures the light of Southeastern Texas, where kids ride their bikes around quiet suburbs and dirt tracks by day, then gather around street lamps by night, as far from parental supervision as possible.

But like the wise fool who searches for his keys under the street lamp because that's where the light is, I used Twitter because that's where the data are.

This latest entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, which reinterprets the Bard's works across multiple genres, hews closely to the story in most respects, but Nesbø adds one element that brilliantly accentuates the malevolence of the landscape: rain — «The rain drifted to the southeast, across streets of smashed street lamps where jackals on the lookout huddled against the walls.»

Here, about an hour southeast of Panama City, everything has been laid out for a bustling community that has yet to arrive: stunning beaches, roads and boardwalks, even street lamps, and benches where neighbors can sit after a stroll.

Nonetheless, Casteel's subjects are perfectly at home in their environments, often bathed in the fluorescence of street lamps, as in Q (all works 2017), where the eponymous subject gazes back, phone in hand, a Coogi - clad Biggie Smalls on his red sweatshirt.

If you use the correct balance of red to green LEDs you could even use them for street lighting where they would have more of a sodium lamp characteristic and reduce the amount of light pollution that seems to interfere with star gazing.

Google Translation: «It is understandable, but it is like looking for his keys at the foot of a street lamp because that's where there's light.»