jack-o'-lantern

Examples

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• "It's time to buy pumpkins to carve into jack-o'-lanterns."

  Fiction book (1997)

• The halls are lined with flickering jack-o'-lanterns.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I guess they wanted to make a jack-o'-lantern, too.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Mr. Mouse and the children climbed through the jack-o'lantern's mouth.

  Fiction book (1997)

• I wanna carve the jack-o'-lantern now, but I need your help with the eyes.

  Trick 'r Treat (2007)

• Simply rub your favorite spice on the inside of the jack-o'-lantern and light it with a tea candle.

  Blog text (17)

• Pumpkin hunting: No Halloween is complete without a jack-o'-lantern sitting out on your stoop.

  Blog text (4)

• Long rows of pumpkins lined up for a jack-o'-lantern carving contest.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Crunchy leaves underfoot, the crisp, clean air, The smell of jack-o'-lanterns all aflame.

  Dracula's Guest (2008)

• During Halloween, children carve faces into pumpkins to create their own jack-o'-lantern decorations.

Synonyms

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pumpkin head

vsjack-o'-lantern

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A carved, hollowed pumpkin made to look like a head or a person whose head looks like a pumpkin

is the carved lantern made from the hollowed gourd used only as decoration

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