The phrase "a single lantern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one lantern, often to emphasize its singularity or importance in a context.
Example: "In the dark forest, a single lantern illuminated the path ahead."
Alternatives: "one lantern" or "a lone lantern".
A single lantern measures 15 ½ inches high, 9 5/8 inches wide and 4 ¾ inches deep, and costs $350.
The Romantics understood another peril of using only one set of models or metaphors: because the theories and models we use structure our vision and analysis, relying on only one is like depending on a single lantern to see in the dark, or using one set of cognitive spectacles to make sense of everything about the world.
Take a flashlight; the only light is a single kerosene lantern.
After the elaborate, art-filled Mill Valley manse, the Zen house, marked by a single Japanese lantern, comes as a bit of a shock.
Gone are the days when lawn ornaments were a single jockey with a lantern, a bird bath or a gazing ball.
Beneath the blaze of the carefully placed umbrella heaters, in the muted glow cast by a string of Chinese lanterns, a single cappuccino-colored ponytail whipped from side to side as Tamara Mellon, the 33-year-old president of Jimmy Choo shoes, planted her 26th double-cheek kiss.
With their details suppressed through soft focus, buildings are distilled to Platonic ghosts of structures: a Gaudí interior is an insouciant twist of line; a house designed by Gerrit Rietveld, a walk-in constructivist painting; the interior of Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, a giant lantern illuminated by a single flame.
The record has been held by Romania, with 12,740 lanterns released in a single event in June 2012.
But in a twist, the bureau recognized the two Connecticut groups, which have long feuded with each other, as a single entity -- "the historical Eastern Pequot Tribe, of the Lantern Hill Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut".
My job was to hold the kerosene lantern as the new mother pushed her baby into the dark night, illuminated by a single flame.
But in five years, thanks largely to a single NGO that has not sold one lamp, 500,000 more homes have been provided with cheap, decentralised electricity via powerful solar LED lanterns using the latest batteries and panels.
