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bulb - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- percussion: The first to look for is the bulb of percussion.
Converse of object
- energy-save: For instance, if every household used energy-saving light bulbs, a power station could be closed.
- replace: Should they need replacing the bulbs are available from all good hardware stores.
Adjective modifier
- incandescent: I was changing incandescent bulbs four times a year.
- fluorescent: Energy Saving Natural Lighting Bulbs Enjoy the benefits of natural daylight indoors with these remarkable fluorescent bulbs.
- daffodil: In the autumn of 2000, 70,000 daffodil bulbs were planted on either side of the Broad Walk.
- 60w: Typically, you'll hear people say " imagine trying to see a standard 60W light bulb that is twenty thousand miles away " .
- flowering: The planting time for the earliest flowering bulbs begins in September.
- light: Normal light bulbs emit more red then blue light.
Modifies a noun
- thermometer: Measure the air temperature with an ordinary dry bulb thermometer in various locations.
- filament: What is the operating temperature of a light bulb filament?
- planting: To continue with shrub and bulb planting and litter pick.
- planter: A bulb planter was then used to remove the plug of soil, and the strawberry plant planted with minimum effort.
- holder: My first attempt at making a bulb holder insert worked well.
Noun used with modifier
- halogen: I have been running with halogen bulbs in my tail lights for about 12 years now.
- low-energy: We had an " energy display " too, with leaflets and cheap low-energy bulbs supplied by our local Friends of the Earth group.
- watt: Bulbs: The bulbs are 20 watt halogen bulbs.
- tungsten: The tungsten bulb has a relatively large, tightly wound filament.
- filament: Different types of light bulbs for lamps Using filament bulbs The most commonly used bulbs are filament light bulbs.
- tulip: I heard that the Dutch had been eating the tulip bulbs, hunger is a terrible thing.
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