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368 examples of Candle in a sentence

Her version doesn't hold a candle to this one as far as I'm concerned!
Paul Berry covered in jam , hell even Jesus squatting over a candle.
In fact the most emotionally moving moments of the movie were clips from live news reels and candle light vigils.
Northwestern University’s Robert Gordon has argued that the economic impact of today’s innovations doesn’t hold a candle to that of plumbing or electricity.
But if the Trump administration does not snuff out the candle of values-based policy and the rule of law in the next four (or eight) years, then all is not yet lost.
Using one candle for each switched-off bulb cancels out even the theoretical CO2 reduction; using two candles means that you emit more CO2.
Banning the light bulb because candle makers would lose their jobs strikes almost everyone as a silly idea.
For the first three years of his first-born son William’s life, Darwin observed him with the practiced eye of a naturalist, recording developments as diverse as his ability to follow a candle with his eyes to the first manifestations of conscience.
Who is there now who can still light a candle in the dark?
At the end of the day, Venezuela can’t hold a candle to the strategic importance of these two firms.
He saw that a sigh had been suppressed within her breast and that the little hand in its long glove holding the candle trembled.
The paper with the drawing that he had thrown away was found, but it was dirty now and spotted with candle grease.
'Well, lie down, and I'll put out the candle.''But I can see better without a candle what I have been praying for!
When the candle had been taken away he heard and felt his mother.
'Nothing,' said she, coming candle in hand from beyond the partition.
She came back to her bed, put out the candle, lay down, and remained quiet.
The candle was burning again.
He was surprised when Mary Vlasevna asked him to light a candle behind the partition, and he learnt that it was already five o'clock in the evening.
She lay in bed with open eyes, looking at the stucco cornice under the ceiling by the light of a single burnt-down candle, and at the shadow of the screen which fell on it, and she vividly imagined what he would feel when she was no more, when she was for him nothing but a memory.
And such terror came upon her that it was long before she could realize where she was and with trembling hand could find the matches to light another candle in the place of the one that had burnt down and gone out.
IS IT FINISHED?' said Anna to herself as she stood by the window; and in answer to that question, the impressions left by the darkness when her candle went out and by the terrible dream, merging into one, filled her heart with icy horror.
Why not put out the candle, if there is nothing more to look at?
The candle, by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief, and evil, flared up with a brighter light, lit up for her all that had before been dark, crackled, began to flicker, and went out for ever.
Left by themselves, the children had started cooking raspberries over a candle, and pouring jets of milk into their mouths.
Now we've thought of putting raspberries in a cup and cooking them over a candle, and of pouring milk into each other's mouths like fountains.
Then, throwing her legs from under the bedclothes, she felt about, at last struck a match and lighted the candle.
Now the candle lighted up the room, a square room with two windows, and filled with three beds.
"Catherine, give me the candle," called out Maheu.
She finished buttoning her jacket, and carried the candle into the closet, leaving her brothers to look for their clothes by what light came through the door.
She did not stop, but went downstairs in her coarse woollen stockings, feeling her way, and lighted another candle in the parlour, to prepare the coffee.
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