The phrase "a lantern on a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the placement or position of a lantern, often in a poetic or descriptive context.
Example: "She placed a lantern on a table, casting a warm glow across the room."
Alternatives: "a lamp on a" or "a light on a".
They posited that empty space is filled with an invisible field — now called the Higgs field — that absorbs the lines of force, much as water vapor will absorb light from a lantern on a foggy night.
When Vinnie arrived home, she found her whole family waiting up by a lantern on a big ceremonial kuta mat on the living-room floor — all but her youngest, Samuel, who hid under a blanket in a nearby room, ashamed that he'd grown chubbier in her absence, and frightened that his mother wouldn't recognize him.
Then he will travel in procession to Etchmiadzin, the center of the Armenian church, for a ceremony in which he will light a lantern on an altar, and that light will be shared with the delegations from around the world, each of which will have brought its own lantern.
The fountain had a 28-foot-high column topped with a weather vane and a lantern; on one side was a wide watering trough for horses, on the other separate drinking places for dogs and humans.
Alas, experience is a "lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us".
"It's going to feel like a lantern on the street," said the building's architect, Natan Bibliowicz.
The flame travelled in a lantern on the Snowdon Mountain Railway before Sir Chris took the torch to the top.
Hanging a lantern on the problem would have been a good idea.
5. Hang a Lantern on Your Problem.
The pyramidal roof is stepped and has a lantern on top.
In his 1999 political bestseller, Hardball, commentator Chris Matthews urges embattled politicos to hang a lantern on their problems... before someone else does.
