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fluorescent light
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  • She has her full uniform on, cloak and all, and her triple-arrow insignia shines silver under the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Emily's mouth moves, the fluorescent lights glittering on her teeth.†   (source)
  • I'm wheeled through a door in the back, into an examination room, where I'm heaved onto the table and left alone for a few minutes, shivering in my thin hospital gown under the bright fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Without the distraction of human voices, Molly imagines she can hear sounds in other rooms: bedsprings groaning, faucets dripping, fluorescent lights humming, pull chains rattling.†   (source)
  • Inside the room it was dark now, the fluorescent light behind my father flickering so slightly it lit only the most obvious masses in the room.†   (source)
  • It was true—the fluorescent light of the cell took ten years off his features.†   (source)
  • In the fluorescent light, the circles under his eyes look like bruises.†   (source)
  • The rest of my thoughts are a blur of radio static and fluorescent lights and lab coats and steel tables and surgical knives—an image of Willow Marks getting dragged off to the labs, screaming, her house defaced with marker and paint.†   (source)
  • Tuesday, October 7 Ode to Algebra Thrust into this dingy classroom we die like lampless moths locked into the desolation of fluorescent lights and metal desks.†   (source)
  • They dragged him across the kitchen floor in a nightmare kind of slow motion, the only sounds the faint, insectile buzz of the fluorescent lights and their own labored breathing.†   (source)
  • I stared at the pulsating fluorescent light hanging from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • From the open building behind me came a blast of neutral-smelling air and a high hum of fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • It hummed with fluorescent lights and automated voices and the bells from the row of testing machines in the back.†   (source)
  • The room was very bright, with fluorescent lights and clean, white floors and walls, and I found myself squinting as I crossed over to where he was standing.†   (source)
  • In the harsh fluorescent light of the school day, it seemed impossible.†   (source)
  • I could see a connecting tunnel to the left, the blue haze of fluorescent lights showing through the window in a concrete block building.†   (source)
  • The night before, the fluorescent lights above had been turned off at ten p. m., and had come on at three in the morning.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights and partitions with carpet glued to them.†   (source)
  • Smoke curled through the luminance of the fluorescent light hanging by wires over the billiard table.†   (source)
  • The prison was dark, only a few dim fluorescent lights flickering above.†   (source)
  • Her glasses reflect the fluorescent light above us, so I can barely see her eyes.†   (source)
  • Our room overlooks the parking lot, and if I peek out from behind the stiff beige curtains, I can see people milling about under the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Under the hospital's fluorescent lights, she could see how tired he looked.†   (source)
  • The tiles were gray and the fluorescent lights made my eyes hurt.†   (source)
  • It has a large plate-glass window; banks of fluorescent lights line the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The elevator clanked to a stop and I stepped of The tunnel was lit with fluorescent lights that flickered pale purple.†   (source)
  • Then she glanced around-at the Formica table, the fluorescent lights, the normalness of the room.†   (source)
  • My blood pressure is so high my entire body buzzes like the fluorescent lights above me.†   (source)
  • The living room opened onto a modest kitchen with bright fluorescent lights in the ceiling and tawny linoleum tiling on the floor.†   (source)
  • She entered a hallway, fluorescent lights humming against the high ceiling.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent lights above me were exposed, glowing in the shape of long, angry bones.†   (source)
  • There were about twenty black guys sitting under fluorescent lights in an old warehouse.†   (source)
  • We walked through a small hallway into an institutional tiled room with harsh fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • It was solid, with fluorescent lights hanging from support poles.†   (source)
  • The ceiling is so high and bright, almost blinding me with its many fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Lit up by the fluorescent lights, Josh Bennett studies me across the garage.†   (source)
  • The twelve of us who covered homicide for the entire city shared a twenty-by-thirty squad room lit by harsh fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • She tucked her dark curls behind her ear, black nail polish catching the fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • The library is warm and dry, an ideal place for retreat on a stormy night, and he smells the lemon wax floor polish, citrus clean, trapped in the airless subterrain of stale books and low-slung fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • My world was a land of fluorescent lights where day and night were the same, and where more than half the citizens spoke Spanish.†   (source)
  • I lay on the stretcher table, staring up out of my right eye at the fluorescent light on the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The room was gray and lighted with fluorescent lights; the tone was sparsely utilitarian, and Comroe found it unpleasant.†   (source)
  • She stood at the sink washing pans and listening to the frenzied clatter of a bug trapped among corpses he maybe recognized in one of the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent lights transmit conversations from passing cars on Broadway.†   (source)
  • The glare of the fluorescent lights cut at his eyes.†   (source)
  • She felt the bleached coarseness of the sheet under her sweaty back and predicted the roughness of the worn carpet path that led from the bed to the white-tiled bathroom with bright fluorescent lights, sterilized towels, and tissue-wrapped water glasses.†   (source)
  • Common rectangular fluorescent lights were spaced evenly along the ceiling.†   (source)
  • An overhead fluorescent lamp lights the small army of medical professionals at work in the trauma room.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent lights were on when I fell asleep but now it's dark with only the moonlight streaming in through the windows.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, their white honeycombed plastic shields newly cleaned of dead insect shapes.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights were scattered about an intricate latticework of temporary supports and braces.†   (source)
  • In this silent room (with its own unheard hum of fridge, fluorescent light) there are these frogs loud as river, gruntings, the whistle of other birds brash and sleepy, but in that night so modest behind the peacocks they were unfocussed by the brain —nothing more than darkness, all those sweet loud younger brothers of the night.†   (source)
  • The harsh fluorescent light, falling straight down on her, turns her eye sockets to caverns, emphasizes the descending lines from nose to chin; but the massiveness of her body makes her head look like an afterthought.†   (source)
  • The sense here, unlike in Bedley Run, is not of brisk and free commerce but rather the near-sickly, leaden atmosphere of a terminal, where people wait and linger under the fluorescent lights and kill time in any way they can.†   (source)
  • In the fluorescent light, he looked very pale, his long dark lashes making him look fragile, almost feminine like some kind of little foreign doll.†   (source)
  • Most were silent, but a few snored, others lighted cigarettes, and there were sporadic lurchings towards the bathroom, where the fluorescent lights remained on.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent light buzzed.†   (source)
  • We saw a beautiful laundromat with fluorescent lights, long benches, shredded magazines and racks of seldom-used religious material.†   (source)
  • And martial arts are for unsure little boys kicking away under fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • The entryroom had almost no furniture in it, though it was large--a parlor--two cheap wooden chairs, an overstuffed chair of ancient mohair, on the far wall a desk with nothing on it but a green blotter and a fluorescent lamp.†   (source)
  • There is a flickering of harsh white light as the fluorescent lights come on.†   (source)
  • A fluorescent light shines from the ceiling above.†   (source)
  • A string of fluorescent lights flickered to life along the entire base of the tank.†   (source)
  • I turned around and saw a shadow highlighted by a fluorescent lamp above his head.†   (source)
  • And on the left side, a young man with dark hair that gleams in the fluorescent light—Peter.†   (source)
  • For a moment there was only the hum of the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights glowed from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Through the window, he saw a white ceiling and a fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • In the fluorescent light her face seemed paler than ever.†   (source)
  • My face is so pale under the harsh fluorescent lights, I hardly recognize it.†   (source)
  • In the fluorescent light, Hearthstone's face looked as petrified as Blitzen's.†   (source)
  • Steam billowed up, making a rainbow in the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • It lay across the table, gleaming in the diner's fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent lights and white tile underscored the sterility of the hospital.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent light glows behind Evelyn's hair.†   (source)
  • Stark fluorescent lights glowed along the rock ceiling.†   (source)
  • It was blaringly bright, especially under the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Kevin watched the fluorescent lights above the gas pumps flicker off.†   (source)
  • The yellowish fluorescent lights made her look washed-out, a pale blue blur in green scrubs.†   (source)
  • The walls were lined with tables of plant trays under fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Iggy heard the slight crackling buzz of the overhead fluorescent light coming on.†   (source)
  • I could see in the dim fluorescent light that someone was asleep in the top bunk.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent light fell through a colander and made a pattern on her cheeks.†   (source)
  • Only the area around the man's desk receives illumination from fluorescent lights on the ceiling.†   (source)
  • He blinked under the fluorescent lights, and Ronnie instinctively reached for his hand.†   (source)
  • I went to my bathroom and washed my face, looking at myself under the greenish fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • Above her, the fluorescent light hummed, and he wondered what he was going to do.†   (source)
  • Yellowish light flooded down from the fluorescent lights overhead.†   (source)
  • I choose the top bed in a corner under a blue fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • My eyes glowed yellow under the harsh fluorescent lights, but I didn't know it.†   (source)
  • The room was lit with a steady, pale fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting a bluish pall over the walls.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent lights on the ceiling are all that is left.†   (source)
  • A few clicks were heard; then the room suddenly blazed with fluorescent lights, temporarily blinding Thomas.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights buzzed overhead.†   (source)
  • Even in the stark fluorescent light of the cabin, there was an aura of composure about her-an almost magnetic radiance of wholeness.†   (source)
  • I'd bring him lunch sometimes and find him looking for a pack of cigarettes on the shelves, a customer waiting on the other side of the oil— stained counter, Baba's face drawn and pale under the bright fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • She was small and frail, with skin almost translucent and made whiter by the bright fluorescent lights overhead.†   (source)
  • Banks of fluorescent lights hung down eighteen inches above the slanted, glass-topped desks where men wearing green eyeshades conferred over stacks of copy and photographs.†   (source)
  • Minho hit a switch and several rows of fluorescent lights flickered until they came on full strength, revealing the room in detail.†   (source)
  • Seeing him sleeping in the dark, with only the low-wattage fluorescent light on at the back of the bed, she remembered standing in this same hospital and taking steps to sever herself from him.†   (source)
  • In the fluorescent lights, Langdon was surprised to see that her strong air actually radiated from unexpectedly soft features.†   (source)
  • I turned away from them and looked up at the bright fluorescent light above my bed, feeling the hot tears on my face, and finally my mom said, "I can't lose you, too."†   (source)
  • We opened the front door and switched on the fluorescent lights, which blinked on, bathing the rows of lathes and shapers and drill presses in a harsh blue-green glare.†   (source)
  • This is worse, even, than standing in the translucent hospital gown at the evaluations, under the glare of the fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • The blurry hospital scene shifts, and I realize, I'm staring up at a similar fluorescent light and that a doctor is hovering over me.†   (source)
  • I sink to my knees on the cold tile and squint at the flower, as the whiteness seems hard to focus on in the stark fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • The bright fluorescent lights overhead hurt her eyes, and she fought the impulse to let her eyelids close, even for a second.†   (source)
  • After months of sitting in waiting rooms reading magazines like Good Housekeeping and Reader's Digest, after endless paper gowns and cold, sterile exam rooms lit by fluorescent lights, the repeated humiliation of discussing every detail of our sex life with a total stranger, the injections and probes and specimen collections, we went back to Dr. Rosen and his trains.†   (source)
  • In a home, or a brightly lit nursery or office, it might be cheerful; but illuminated only by the patchy fluorescent lights that keep buzzing on and off, and stained with years and years of water and handprints and squashed insects and I don't-want-to-know-what, it seems incredibly depressing—like getting a big smile from someone with blackened, rotting teeth.†   (source)
  • I stared at it in amazement, the dug-out shelf above him where he had placed matches, a row of batteries, and a battery-powered fluorescent lamp that cast the only light in the room—an eerie light that would make his features hard to see when he was on top of me.†   (source)
  • The room in which she was sitting appeared to be a boiler room of some sort—pipes on the walls, gurgling sounds, fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • I walked through the fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • Beneath bright fluorescent lights were only six shelves of books, set relatively close together, in a room that wasn't much larger than his apartment.†   (source)
  • THERE IS NO DAY or night anymore, only the sterile glow of the fluorescent lights, and those lights never go out.†   (source)
  • The air smelled of ammonia and antiseptic, the fluorescent lights cast a flat glare over the crowded waiting room.†   (source)
  • A second later, the fluorescent light over her head flickered, buzzed, and then came on, bathing everything in a gray, sallow light.†   (source)
  • Like all prisons, it was drab, cold …. concrete and steel everywhere, all bathed in fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • He pushed the wheelchair through the doorway, and we were in a long hall lit by fluorescent lights and tiled with the ever-popular linoleum squares.†   (source)
  • I was sitting under the harsh fluorescent lights of the attorney-client conference room when Shay Bourne was brought in to meet with me.†   (source)
  • The upper floors seemed to dissolve in the hazy glow of the sky, as blank white as a fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • Fluorescent lights hummed overhead, but the sound was drowned out by the enormous water filters that lined the far wall.†   (source)
  • So maybe that was why we always seemed to be talking about time as we wandered the aisles of stores under fluorescent lights, or drank coffee in a dark room while his clothes fluffed, or just drove through the mostly empty streets, en route to somewhere.†   (source)
  • I sat there, the fluorescent light flickering over-head, as the man went inside to buy cigarettes and Wes pumped gas, his back to me, eyes on the numbers as they clicked higher and higher.†   (source)
  • He scans his card at a heavy door on our left, and we walk down another hallway, this one narrow and lit with pale, fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • Rows of fluorescent lights glowed harshly overhead, providing all the ambiance of a discount-furniture store.†   (source)
  • When that happened, she instinctively groped at her stomach, searching for wounds that didn't exist, but then she was back in the hospital, sitting and waiting under fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Needle glinting in fluorescent light.†   (source)
  • I'm beginning to wish I at least had the makeup on because I'm feeling very exposed under the fluorescent lights with this boy staring at me.†   (source)
  • Now he was looking at her the same way even as she smiled at him, pretending that there was no glare from the fluorescent light over his head; that she could reach out and touch him instead of staring at him from the other side of the red line that had been drawn on the jail floor.†   (source)
  • The fluorescent light fixture above his bed had been left on, and beneath its cool, icy cast, he appeared as if he were alive but being preserved in a kind of science-fictional stasis, his hair unevenly matted from sleep, his skin dull of sheen, the beeps and hums of the machines standing in for the sounds of his living.†   (source)
  • He imagined the dim fluorescent lights and the cold permanence of the steel bars, doors clanging shut.†   (source)
  • I knew it was straight ahead, but several of the overhead fluorescent lights were out of service, making it difficult to see clearly.†   (source)
  • He turned from David to scan the dark cavern, lit here and there by soft halos of fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • A hundred feet ahead, under the harsh glow of fluorescent lights, a row of chain-link cages hung suspended from cables.†   (source)
  • It had bright fluorescent lights—that didn't flicker or change color, I noticed immediately the first time I walked in—and a trained, professional library staff.†   (source)
  • I had also learned to sleep against the wall with my arm shielding my eyes from the fluorescent light that was on in the cell twenty-four hours a day.†   (source)
  • The library was mostly empty, and I suddenly felt like I could hear everything: the buzzing of the fluorescent lights over my head, the squeak of Bethany's chair as she shifted position, the tappety-tap of the online card catalog station just around the corner.†   (source)
  • In a moment, he found himself in a modern, bare room, lighted by banks of cold overhead fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Ordinary fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • Freshly showered and wearing the uniform that I thought was the least unflattering, I stood in the fluorescent light of the decrepit bathroom and looked at the unfamiliar woman in the mirror.†   (source)
  • Her brown paper shopping bag against her, she dozed under the fluorescent lights until her sister's bus pulled into the terminal.†   (source)
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