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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In early August the resorts on the lakeshore sponsor the dramatic Torii Matsuri festival, when a great wooden arch is set alight and a thousand burning lanterns are sent floating out across the water.

  • On the 14th and 15th of the month is the year’s second lighting-up of the thousands of lanterns at Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara.


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