Example sentences for: candle

How can you use “candle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She then bought three purses and a candle before arriving at the jewelry stand.

  • In 1788 a Spanish official, lighting a devotional candle in the private chapel in his home on Chartres Street, started a fire which spread, fanned by the wind, to devour nearly half the town.

  • Steady streams of visitors step inside to light a candle.

  • The paper also quoted the Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney welcoming the agreement with a quotation from the epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf": "A light appeared and the whole place became brightened the way the sky does when heaven's candle is shining brightly."

  • Home altars vary in size, from a small shelf with one votive candle and one saint or statue, to a large table altar, with many religious images, La Virgen de Guadalupe, flowers, pictures of saints, candles; a structure that can fill up half a room.


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