lamppost

Converse of object

• hit: None of us were wearing seat belts and my good friend died as she hit the lamppost full on.
• use: Silly, I should have used the lampposts, but fell back on that old standby, the lock ladder.
• round: Apart from being easier to wrap round a lamppost, fast cars are more likely to be stolen.

Preposition: in

• middle: Reality Checkpoint The ornate lamppost in the middle of Parker's Piece.
• center: The walk starts from Reality Checkpoint ( 1 ), a solitary lamppost in the center of the Parker's Piece park.

Adjective modifier

• concrete: A solitary seagull sits on top of a concrete lamppost, the only type of structure still standing here.
• old: The original site of the old lamppost had been screened by the residents with a tree being planted.
• new: The current position of the new lamppost which was much taller was causing light intrusion in the upper story of the house.
• next: It was the daily paranoia of wondering if the bicycle chained to the next lamppost was going to blow your legs off.
• high: They'll hang Blair from the highest lamppost in London.

Preposition: on

• corner: He was literally leaning on a lamppost on the corner of the street, just like a little man.

Noun used with modifier

• bracket: There had also been alterations on the platform during the same period: concrete bracket lampposts supporting electric lighting had replaced gas lamps.
• iron: Here, as so often elsewhere, good surviving examples of old cast iron lampposts at present carry much newer electric light fittings.
• metal: Tall metal lampposts appeared centrally on the island and the vacant land on the ''up ' ' side became even more overgrown.