How to Use jack-o'-lantern in a Sentence

jack-o'-lantern

noun
  • In between, jack-o'-lanterns are the stars of Halloween.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
  • How to get a nutritional boost from your jack-o'-lantern.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • How to get a nutritional boost from your jack-o'-lantern.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Plus, get our best tips for keeping jack-o'-lanterns crisp and clean throughout spooky season.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Stroll along a half-mile trail lined with thousands of jack-o'-lanterns and other seasonal decor.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Everyone needs a classic jack-o'-lantern (or a few) to bring a warm, festive glow to their home.
    — Melanie Fincher, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Giant spiderwebs and lots of jack-o'-lanterns make this seasonal display bold and fun.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The pumpkins came from nearby farms where families picked their jack-o'-lanterns weeks earlier.
    — Matt Emma, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The bucket, which appears to be a plastic jack-o'-lantern, may seem like a laughing matter to some, but not Karen Bloch.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of carving up the traditional spooky jack-o'-lanterns this year, give your front porch a whimsical touch with floral pumpkins.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of using a flickering candle inside your jack-o'-lantern, opt for LED lights instead.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Your animal friends will get tasty pumpkin treats and seasonal enrichment as jack-o'-lanterns become reefs for the underwater creatures.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2019
  • While that’s typical for a jack-o'-lantern, Bierton hopes to inspire people to think differently about their pumpkin creations.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The event involves animals enjoying jack-o'-lanterns and other spooky enrichment surprises, the zoo’s website states.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Grab your friends and make a day out of creating an entire pumpkin village, or add a little excitement to your porch display by hiding a couple of fairy cottages among the rest of your jack-o'-lanterns.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Another sweet scene captured on camera showed the two pointing out a shop window decorated with various Halloween items, including a skull and jack-o'-lantern.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The Amber Alert described 1-year-old Fargis as being last seen wearing an orange Halloween shirt with a white ghost on the front and black tights featuring jack-o'-lanterns, lollipops, and worms.
    — Jenna Sundel hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This year's buckets are a cute (and definitely not spooky) array of Halloween friends, including a friendly ghost, a black cat, the iconic jack-o'-lantern, a not-too-scary red zombie, and a green monster that would make Frankenstein proud.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
  • After superimposing a jack-o'-lantern emoji over Rocky's face to maintain his privacy in a photo shared on Instagram, commentators questioned The Kardashians star's decision to do so.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025

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