How do you use Lighter in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like boat or device, plus the exact meaning.
Lighter in a sentence
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Lighter meaning
- A person who lights things.
- A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.
Using Lighter
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who lights things. | A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.
- Useful related words include: igniter, ignitor, boat, hoy.
- In the example corpus, lighter often appears in combinations such as: lighter and, the lighter, and lighter.
Example sentences (20)
While I think Smith probably projects better as an off-ball linebacker, it’s interesting to see these guys get lighter and lighter.
This is because some of the dry air (composed of the heavier molecules, nitrogen and oxygen) in an equivalent volume, is replaced with lighter, water vapor molecules (the lighter molecular weight of the water molecule, H2O).
Lighter days - lighter wines.
Claire’s got JJ Deveraux (Casey Moss) breathing down her neck about the lighter that he found amongst her things, and he even took the lighter to the Salem PD for testing.
Barrels for shotguns have been getting longer as modern steels and production methods make the barrels stronger and lighter; a longer, lighter barrel gives the same inertia for less overall weight.
Development of lighter assault rifles continued, matched by developments in even lighter carbines.
Oakeshott (1980), p.56 Cavalry At the start of the Renaissance, cavalry remained predominantly lance-armed; gendarmes with the heavy knightly lance and lighter cavalry with a variety of lighter lances.
Since these weapons delivered lighter munitions (thus delivering less energy on impact) it is a widely held opinion that they were used more as an anti-personnel role, or to destroy lighter structures.
The F-18L's normal gross weight was lighter than the F/A-18A by convert, via lighter landing gear, lack of wing folding mechanism, reduced part thickness in areas, and lower fuel-carrying capacity.
Two tones are normally used by major orchestras, known as Germanic or Wagnerian (heavier) and Viennese (lighter); a third, rarer tone is known as French (lighter still).
A-Class Reactors like the mostly work on smaller ships with less power generation or Hull values but are far lighter.
Add the remaining 1 cup of sugar and melted butter and whisk vigorously until the mixture is visibly lighter and fluffy, about 1½ minutes.
A few showers are possible, although lighter and more isolated than on Wednesday.
After the “feasting over Christmas and New Year”, she recommends having meals that are “really refreshing, zingy and citrusy, and lighter”.
Along with the standard Pro model, it's also the first globally produced smartphone that makes use of titanium for its frame, which also makes it lighter compared to its predecessor.
Although a troy ounce does weigh more than an avoirdupois ounce, it’s not one and a third avoirdupois ounces because the troy pound is lighter than the avoirdupois pound.
And so it's a lighter touch, and we think more of that will transact as we get into 2024.
And that's when the procession starts: patient after patient knocking on my door asking for a cigarette, and a lighter.
And though the work of the Supreme Court is serious, Fahey highlighted a lighter side of O’Connor’s life.
And while we’re expecting an update that’s on the lighter side, the operating system will deliver new features, enhancements to current features, and a lot more.
Common combinations with lighter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lighter and 20×
- the lighter 19×
- and lighter 18×
- lighter than 18×
- is lighter 9×
- lighter side 7×
- with lighter 6×
- of lighter 6×
- little lighter 6×
- lot lighter 5×