lantern

Example Sentences

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By this time of day, everything— from the windows of the two-story buildings to the red lanterns strung up for tourists—had been covered in the dust that somehow drifted in from the Mohave.

From Literature

“There is no need to apologize for the lantern; I understand the streetlights are dimmed to protect the city from German planes.”

From Literature

On a walk to Soho for fish and chips in London this week, I was struck by the vibrant red lanterns in Chinatown.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then she handed me a red lantern, the kind that hangs on the back of a train's caboose.

From Literature

In China, red lanterns could guide a traveller to safety in cold winter alleyways, be symbols of power outside an imperial hall, or act as a call to religious devotion when hung in a temple.

From BBC