gaslight in English

noun
1
a type of lamp in which an incandescent mantle is heated by a jet of burning gas.
Street gaslights add their glow to the swimming moonshine and are reflected in the siren's diamond coronet and huge dark eyes that know the secrets of the deep.
verb
1
manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
in the first episode, Karen Valentine is being gaslighted by her husband

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "gaslight" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "gaslight", or refer to the context using the word "gaslight" in the English Dictionary.

1. His bearded face was monstrous in the gaslight.

2. There was no gaslight in the apartments; only kerosene lamps glowed in the windows.

3. 23 He raked his fingers through fur the color of weak tea, brown, red, golden tint of gaslight.

4. A group of 16 Tucson-based jazz pros will fire up the Gaslight Theatre tonight.

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6. Was not the liveliest object even in Saint Mary Axe--which is not a very lively spot--with a sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a Burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it

7. Hyde & The Case of the Gaslight Buggerings to have its fullest effect, the ideal audience would be packed with people who are all: A) familiar with Robert Louis Stevenson's original novella of The Strange Case of Dr