Example sentences for: lanterns

How can you use “lanterns” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Just south of Ginza itself, as you walk toward the bay, you see on your left the red lanterns and long banners of the Kabuki-za, home base for that most thrilling and colorful form of traditional Japanese drama.

  • Among its renowned shops are Rongbaozhai (art and art supplies), the China Bookstore (old books), Jijuge (a teahouse featuring clay figures from tombs), and Wenshenzhai (former purveyor of fans and paper lanterns to the Qing Dynasty).

  • The sturdy interior of wide, rough-hewn floorboards and massive pinewood roofbeams is fitted out from the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts with antique Québec furniture, rugs, lanterns, clocks, and porcelain appropriate to the life of a wealthy 18th-century businessman.

  • At Nagasaki in mid-August, glowing lanterns decorate the graveyards, while other lanterns are put out to sea on model boats to take the departed souls back to their other world.

  • The covered northern staircase and the broad stone southern staircase both lead up to the main walkway encircling the temple, which has massive lanterns and a strange assortment of artwork donated by supporting companies.


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