Example Sentences

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Festive décor was placed around the courtroom, including Halloween banners, spider webs, eyeball balloons, paper mache jack-o-lanterns, candy buckets and not-so-scary cutouts.

From Fox News • Nov. 2, 2021

In the brief clip, Carey wears a festive, sparkly red gown and approaches three jack-o-lanterns carved with the words “it’s,” “not” and “time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2021

We bought our Christmas tree on the coffee shop’s front lawn, and visited the jack-o-lanterns lined up on the front steps in October.

From Slate • May 18, 2020

“There are already no customers. How can we increase prices?” said one merchant here, a 30-something woman sitting among assorted containers of slime, from oozing jack-o-lanterns to glittery tubes labeled unicorn poop.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019

From the ceiling hung pumpkin jack-o-lanterns of every size.

From The Motor Maids' School Days by Stokes, Katherine