Lanterns is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lanterns meaning
plural of lantern
Using Lanterns
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of lantern
- In the example corpus, lanterns often appears in combinations such as: lanterns and, green lanterns, the lanterns.
Context around Lanterns
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lanterns
- In this selection, "lanterns" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, paper, green, blue, bearing, hanging and connected stand out and add context to how "lanterns" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all the lanterns that hal and around green lanterns the blue. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lanterns" sits close to words such as alight, anomalies and bakersfield, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lanterns
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Finishing touches are being added to giant pea-lit animal lanterns. (11 words)
He also said two stone lanterns in front of his house collapsed. (12 words)
But the Corps’ ultimate enforcers the Alpha Lanterns were exempt from this rule. (13 words)
A spokesman for Essex Highways said: “To make best use of our resources, we are not installing old sodium lanterns on street lights which are not working and are due to be replaced by LEDs, unless there are safety issues to consider. (42 words)
It is unclear if Fillion's Green Lantern has existing relationships with Hal Jordan and John Stewart, who will also be joining the DC Universe, but it is possible he may make a guest appearance in the Lanterns TV show. (40 words)
Children lit up the streets with their decorated lanterns as they paraded along the one-mile route as part of a sponsored walk to Eagles Meadow, in aid of Nightingale House Hospice. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
While around Green Lanterns, the Blue Lanterns can use their powers offensively, or even do the impossible like turn back an aging red giant to make it a young star.
The lanterns were crafted by the art group at Pendine Park care organisation with each of the 266 lanterns bearing the name of a victim.
Additional works will be released on Feb. 3 and March 3, featuring large-scale lanterns and sculptural light boxes.
Amongst the 50 giant illuminated lanterns on display are a scene from Aladin, pandas, a pagoda and a giant rooster, celebrating the new zodiac animal for a new Chinese New Year.
A rechargeable battery is another prerequisite, but many lanterns also double up as a power bank, letting you charge your phone, tablet, headlamps, and other small gadgets.
A spokesman for Essex Highways said: “To make best use of our resources, we are not installing old sodium lanterns on street lights which are not working and are due to be replaced by LEDs, unless there are safety issues to consider.
But all the Lanterns that Hal knows have become zombified monsters, and are swarming him en masse.
But the Corps’ ultimate enforcers the Alpha Lanterns were exempt from this rule.
Children lit up the streets with their decorated lanterns as they paraded along the one-mile route as part of a sponsored walk to Eagles Meadow, in aid of Nightingale House Hospice.
Every Green Lantern has shown the ability to resist fear, which is extremely important because the Green Lantern's natural enemies are the Yellow Lanterns, who are empowered by fear.
Finishing touches are being added to giant pea-lit animal lanterns.
For some it might be John Singer Sargent’s luminous 1885-6 image of two young girls hanging paper lanterns in a summer evening garden.
Half a dozen writers and producers were seated in front of laptops in a room they’d deemed “the Hookah Lounge” in deference to the paper lanterns hanging overhead.
He also said two stone lanterns in front of his house collapsed.
He then turns and walks across the street, through the Dragon Gate, beneath the flags and rows of lanterns, connected under the sky.
It involves releasing lanterns into the night to symbolise letting go of old habits.
It is unclear if Fillion's Green Lantern has existing relationships with Hal Jordan and John Stewart, who will also be joining the DC Universe, but it is possible he may make a guest appearance in the Lanterns TV show.
Lanterns are lit and released into the night sky during the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Feb. 5, 2023.
LANTERNS will illuminate the night sky during a hospice’s fund-raising walk at the National Trust’s Croome country park near Worcester.
Large range of Rosary Beads, prayer cards, grave lanterns, books, sacred heart pictures and much more.
Common combinations with lanterns
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lanterns and 25×
- green lanterns 16×
- the lanterns 16×
- sky lanterns 12×
- lanterns are 12×
- and lanterns 11×
- lanterns in 10×
- lanterns were 8×
- of lanterns 8×
- paper lanterns 6×