lantern

Example Sentences

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Held mid-December each year, the festival acts as a platform to highlight the region's famed lantern industry, which first started more than 100 years ago.

From Barron's

“We’re not going to hang a lantern on exactly what he’s feeling here,” Fuller said.

From Los Angeles Times

Two Americans were standing there with a lantern.

From Literature

At night by lantern light, he read Churchill’s six-volume history of World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s beautifully decorated, with colored glasses, a striking mural, and umbrellas, lanterns, and floating bamboo lotus hanging from the ceiling.

From Salon