How to Use gaslight in a Sentence

gaslight

1 of 2 noun

• To get out of or to stop a gaslight, take one step at a time, Stern says.
  — Sarah Digiulio /, NBC News, 13 July 2018
• Klepper said in a distorted voice, as the camera zoomed in on the gaslight.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2017
• The 54-year-old woman was waiting for a bus the morning of June 30, a Sunday, in Clifton's gaslight district.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• For years, the gaslight has been used as a symbol of Park Ridge, appearing on the city’s website and quarterly newsletter, the Spokesman.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• Paris, with its gaslight glamour, its yawning new boulevards, its tremors of social discord, just down the river.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
• The larger of the two is lined with ivy and gaslights, and features an outdoor fireplace with a 75-inch TV above the mantle, a heated canopy, hot tub with an awning and barbecue area.
  — Vivian Marino, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• In discussing these books, Wolff explores the profound impact of gaslight and the development of projection technologies on opera.
  — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
• Josephine's memories included homework done by kerosene gaslight during her school years.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Its brilliant gaslights, its sociable tables, with their little games, its cheery warmth in winter, its iced beverages and cool halls in summer, all invite and welcome his entrance.
  — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 6 Jan. 2018
• There is no photograph of the hallway, barely illuminated by a flickering gaslight that hides everything that is unlovely.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2019
• The 18-year-old, who recently had been released from juvenile incarceration in Miami County, convinced a woman waiting at a bus stop in Clifton's gaslight district to go behind a nearby building.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• By the time Brassaï began photographing, gaslights had mostly been replaced by electricity, but Brassaï made very sophisticated use of the new electric streetlamps to give his pictures atmosphere.
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2018
• Friedman has matched that sensibility here with songs that slide from lilting, gaslight-era melodiousness into a jagged, more contemporary anxiety.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• Illumination from two rows of gaslights is carefully calibrated and distributed.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
• To get out of or to stop a gaslight, take one step at a time, Stern says.
  — Sarah Digiulio /, NBC News, 13 July 2018
• Klepper said in a distorted voice, as the camera zoomed in on the gaslight.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2017
• The 54-year-old woman was waiting for a bus the morning of June 30, a Sunday, in Clifton's gaslight district.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• For years, the gaslight has been used as a symbol of Park Ridge, appearing on the city’s website and quarterly newsletter, the Spokesman.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• Paris, with its gaslight glamour, its yawning new boulevards, its tremors of social discord, just down the river.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
• The larger of the two is lined with ivy and gaslights, and features an outdoor fireplace with a 75-inch TV above the mantle, a heated canopy, hot tub with an awning and barbecue area.
  — Vivian Marino, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• In discussing these books, Wolff explores the profound impact of gaslight and the development of projection technologies on opera.
  — Larry Wolff, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
• Josephine's memories included homework done by kerosene gaslight during her school years.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Its brilliant gaslights, its sociable tables, with their little games, its cheery warmth in winter, its iced beverages and cool halls in summer, all invite and welcome his entrance.
  — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 6 Jan. 2018
• There is no photograph of the hallway, barely illuminated by a flickering gaslight that hides everything that is unlovely.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2019
• The 18-year-old, who recently had been released from juvenile incarceration in Miami County, convinced a woman waiting at a bus stop in Clifton's gaslight district to go behind a nearby building.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• By the time Brassaï began photographing, gaslights had mostly been replaced by electricity, but Brassaï made very sophisticated use of the new electric streetlamps to give his pictures atmosphere.
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2018
• Friedman has matched that sensibility here with songs that slide from lilting, gaslight-era melodiousness into a jagged, more contemporary anxiety.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• Illumination from two rows of gaslights is carefully calibrated and distributed.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017

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gaslight

2 of 2 verb

• In fact, the only thing that seemed to reduce adults’ bias against kids was to gaslight them.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2019
• And gaslighting was a Sanders specialty, day in and day out.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• When the one friend says your boyfriend is gaslighting you, what's her example?
  — Love Letters.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• Those themes all line up with current events: The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police, efforts to gaslight or obscure facts.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 4 June 2020
• People who have this push and punish, and then gaslight their partner.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• It’s being used by the abusers to gaslight people that are trying to advocate to keep them silent.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 16 Nov. 2022
• Some Democrats deny that the economy is humming along, in an effort to gaslight Trump.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
• While the Feds gaslight the American public, Florida pushes for the truth.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• Like the makers of the earlier Saw movies, Jigsaw's creators seem to delight in trying to gaslight you.
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2017
• Autumn’s disappearance, Tate writes in the author’s note, is a metaphor for the way victims are so often gaslighted and shamed.
  — Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• Instead of gaslighting us, that would have gone a lot further than any conviction to healing in this country.
  — August Brown, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2019
• However, tensions flare when Reza is seen accusing Mike of trying to gaslight him, and all of the drama reaches a peak in the very last moments of the trailer.
  — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• Alan tells Camille in tonight’s Sharp Objects, accusing her—in a classic bit of Crellin gaslighting—of making her mother ill.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Aug. 2018
• Nuance and careful reasoning are not the tools of the oppressor, meant to deceive and gaslight and undermine and distract.
  — Jessica Floum, OregonLive.com, 6 Nov. 2017
• For two and a half hours, Buckley is mostly alone onscreen with these many men who attack her, mock her, flash her, lurk outside her windows, gaslight her, blame her.
  — Jordan Kisner, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• There are few examples of gaslighting more obvious than this.
  — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 1 June 2018
• But that will be the most literal gaslighting imaginable, a lie of real gravity.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
• This week on Riverdale, family members come out of the woodwork, Jughead gets a big opportunity, Cheryl turns the tables on her gaslighting foe, and more.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2019
• Your crappy ex-boyfriend may still be trying to gaslight you, but the idea doesn’t provide a useful framework for understanding where society is headed next.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2022
• That Pelosi refuses to acknowledge this almost feels like gaslighting.
  — Elizabeth Spiers, The New Republic, 24 July 2019
• In an incredible act of gaslighting, the Hall leadership tried to pass off this tokenism as diversity, and many media outlets fell for it.
  — Evelyn McDonnell, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2019
• Reaction from the climate community, which has spent decades watching Exxon actively bury climate research and gaslight the public, ranged from anger to eye-rolls.
  — Brentan Alexander, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• As much as a government cover-up tried to gaslight the town with a story of drowning, Will was really pulled into an alternate reality known as the Upside Down.
  — Whitney Friedlander, CNN, 2 July 2019
• Really controlling parents, or friends who gaslight you.
  — Allie Briggs, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The continuing effort to throw sand in the eyes of history -- to gaslight the American people about what happened that day -- is a thundering alarm about the future of America's democracy.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 18 May 2021
• Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, those posts, too, inspired ire from their followers, who claimed Hart was lying and trying to gaslight them.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2022
• Given the strength of feeling in British politics right now, that opinion could uncharitably be described as gaslighting.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
• In her latest research, Sweet is looking at how parents, for example, might gaslight their own teenage children when talking about experiences of childhood abuse.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2023
• But instead, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon chose to gaslight those who raised concerns.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• From a thematic standpoint, I was struck by the show’s exploration of how society can gaslight its scapegoats into believing—and thus embodying—the worst stereotypes about themselves.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 13 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024