How to Use pilot light in a Sentence

pilot light

noun

• That might be a sign that the pilot light on the heater has gone out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• And then the pilot light jumped and my face caught on fire.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• And then the pilot light jumped, and my face caught on fire.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2023
• The clack-clack-clack of the pilot light led to a whoosh of flame coming to life.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
• The pilot light of my identity, not a problem to be solved.
  — Susannah Felts, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2023
• The pilot light is what ignites the burner and starts the water heating process.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2021
• Canadians in the United States have the pilot light, too.
  — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021
• Switch the pilot light and the gas valve off and wait for the fireplace to cool down completely before cleaning.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2021
• The first common reason could be because of your pilot light.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2021
• The wind kept blowing out the pilot light at one concession stand, for instance.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2020
• The hot stove market, with 136 free agents still unemployed, barely has the flicker of a pilot light.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
• The control system for gas ovens couldn’t be equipped with a constant burning pilot light.
  — By Mary Stroka | The Center Square Contributor , Washington Examiner, 5 Apr. 2023
• Your pilot light is located at the bottom of your gas water heater tank.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2021
• All the families who tend that pilot light with love and tenacity.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 10 Oct. 2021
• Now, the violence in Ukraine seems to have revealed a pilot light in millions of people of all faiths worldwide.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2022
• The stretch of late winter that will inevitably lead to spring seemed more manageable somehow, like the pilot light has been reignited in my soul.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• Neighbors said police at the scene said the home was unheated due to flooding in the basement that extinguished the pilot light on the furnace.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 22 Jan. 2020
• The late-career run that Nas has put together since 2020 — with Hit-Boy as his pilot light — is proof that time is truly a flat circle.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• That blow torch of a pilot light is an eternal flame in this state, but something feels different as July turns to August.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2023
• Our oven was child-size, akin to the Easy Bake variety, with a temperamental pilot light.
  — Kaci Neves, Bon Appétit, 7 June 2021
• All that’s required is a tiny spark—from a pilot light, or someone turning on a burner on a stove, even a thermostat switching on.
  — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
• Called flaring, the technique involves burning natural gas that leaks from wells—much as a stove’s pilot light burns gas.
  — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• Walter is his weird, grouchy OCD self, tinkering with the water heater pilot light, pacing and making noise.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The sound was the same as when a match touches the pilot light of a stove, only louder and deeper, a spasm of air expanding so fast and hard against the warehouse walls that the whole building shuddered and shook.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• Please explain what keeps your pilot light going on the inside to further growth, commitment and your purpose?
  — Rod Berger, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• Zhou and Loth continued to make improvements to the stove, adding a pilot light and making the stove more powerful and suitable for home backyard cooking.
  — Rachel Ng, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2021
• This was the only gun in our recent test with an on/off pilot light, which is important for safety and saving energy.
  — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2020
• Now consider a train car, where a T-boning vehicle powered by a manmade fireball is what strikes the tank—and think about the size of the pilot light that ignites your stovetop and oven.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2020
• The balloon flew northeast along the Connecticut River, cruising for about 45 minutes before Boland reported that the pilot light on the burner was out.
  — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2021
• On Saturday, the stadium’s ancient Olympic torch burned atop the peristyle throughout the night but seemed more like a pilot light compared to what was happening onstage.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024