Examples of lamplighter in a Sentence
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The invention of electricity made menial jobs like the lamplighter, the elevator operator, and the knocker-up, the human equivalent to the modern alarm clock, irrelevant.
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Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
In a prior essay months ago, Altman talked about job displacement, using the example of the old lamplighter – someone whose job would be to put fire to the streetlamps used in the times before municipal electricity.
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John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
There are five lamplighters still at work maintaining London's remaining 1,100 gas lamps.
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David Morgan,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2025
But there’s reason to wonder whether his profession—like that of lamplighters, town criers, and cigarette girls—might be a thing of the past.
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Andrew O’Hagan,
The New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2024
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Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
In a prior essay months ago, Altman talked about job displacement, using the example of the old lamplighter – someone whose job would be to put fire to the streetlamps used in the times before municipal electricity.
—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
There are five lamplighters still at work maintaining London's remaining 1,100 gas lamps.
—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2025
But there’s reason to wonder whether his profession—like that of lamplighters, town criers, and cigarette girls—might be a thing of the past.
—
Andrew O’Hagan,
The New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2024
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“Lamplighter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lamplighter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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lamplighter
noun
lamp·light·er
ˈlam-ˌplīt-ər 
: one that lights a lamp
especially
: a person employed to light gas streetlights
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