A chandelier with burned-out bulbs hung over what must have once been a dining-room table but had long since become something of a desk.

One of the beautiful bedside glass lamps had a burned-out bulb.

He had inserted what appeared to be a burned-out bulb in the end of the row.

Often electrical utilities would trade new lamps for consumers' burned-out bulbs.

For years I coped by using the burned-out bulb as a visual aid.

Most everything was working except for a few burned-out bulbs that I could replace in five minutes.

Look throughout the car for any burned-out bulbs.

Tenants could wait weeks before a burned-out bulb was changed or before the engineering department would approve a simple office change like a moved wall.

Following each of six exposures, technicians hurriedly replaced the burned-out bulbs for the next shot.

Most survivors were now in their 70's or older, dying off like so many burned-out bulbs.