Example collocations logo

Candles in sentence

185 examples of Candles in a sentence

The girl with no freckles, the sweet potato boy, the basketball father and darkroom mother and they lit their candles and said their prayers, and the corners of the photographs curled.
Stop the use of incense and candles.
So, without romanticizing this too much: imagine that you light your home with kerosene and candles every night, and that you do all of your cooking with charcoal.
When I was working in the field, I brought lots of candles with me, and with the help of my interpreter, I imparted to the people I was photographing that I wanted to illuminate their stories and their plight, so when it was safe for them, and safe for me, I made these images.
So I organized candles on a table, I lit them, and then blew them out, then repeated this process over and over with the same set of candles, then assembled the videos into the larger image.
And there have been 15 million candles lit in one decade.
So what you would have had were candles on either side.
Yet every time a species is lost, it's like extinguishing a room full of candles one by one.
He's got candles out, he's got flowers in the middle and he's trying to figure out where to put the plates and the glasses.
All these candles, thousands of candles people had lit in tribute to this.
1.3 billion don't have access to electricity, and they light their homes with kerosene and candles, both of which are dangerous.
Candles are usually only lit at night.
Using feathers from the flocks that perched on the tower, and the wax from candles, Daedalus constructed two pairs of giant wings.
By the time the last Neanderthal disappeared in Europe, 27,000 years ago, our direct ancestors had already, and for 5,000 years, been crawling into the belly of the earth, where in the light of the flickers of tallow candles, they had brought into being the great art of the Upper Paleolithic.
So in this painting by Magritte, noticing that there are no tracks under the train, there is no fire in the fireplace and there are no candles in the candlesticks actually more accurately describes the painting than if you were to say, "Well, there's a train coming out of a fireplace, and there are candlesticks on the mantle."
You blow out candles on top of a birthday cake.
You cannot build a light bulb by building better and better candles.
And if you separated it by one plate, you could see two candles separately at that distance.
Cake and candles.
Candles can't burn in a vacuum, therefore, probably sparklers wouldn't either.
Now the United States has a particularly important role to play in this: to keep our education system globalized, to keep our education system open to students from all over the world, because our education system is the candle that other students come to light their own candles.
Jefferson said, "When they come and light their candles at ours, they gain light, and we are not darkened."
Because the truth is, when they light their candles at ours, there is twice as much light available for everyone.
The doctor found himself in an immense cave lined with countless quivering candles, each representing the duration of a life.
Mound up those four plates with vegetables and then open up the very best bottle of Burgundy you have, light the candles and celebrate it.
Then suddenly Freda seems to have lost interest in the film and all we get is prolonged shots of Camille Keaton and burning candles.
Instead, writer Anthony Wilson and director Sam O'Steen opt for a Satan-worshiping thriller full of a lot of chanting, plenty of candles, and Ruth Gordon trying to act daffy and nasty at the same time.
From a love scene in a room inexplicably filled with candles, to "heroes" who dress up as commandoes and wave their machine guns because they don't want to attract attention to themselves(!), to bad guys who drive around the city in a black van long after it has been recognized as their vehicle, this film has too many ludicrous points to fit in a list.
Jeremiah Stone, as we see, is lying merely a skeleton near an alter containing skulls lined next to each other as the candles on top of them light up, the pickax underneath awaiting it's master, with dust particles returning him to a grotesque corpse with demonic exposition, his eyes aglow with wrath.
Ever want to plan a true 80s movie weekend, rent this, Sure Thing and 16 candles and Breakfast Club.
Next