Example sentences for: candles

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

  • Deepavali (Hindu Festival of Lights) is the Indian community’s major celebration, signaled by candles lit in the homes, family feasts, and prayers in the temple.

  • La Virgen de Guadalupe is revered religiously, candles are lit for her, flowers are left at the church for her, and yet she is very much a part of popular culture.

  • The center of the eight-day Hanukkah celebration is the nightly family gathering to light candles in a candelabra known as the "menorah."

  • And of course there are the tchotchke shops in which one is overcome by potpourri, incense, scented candles, and sachet.

  • For a religious experience and a history lesson with your foodstuffs shopping, visit Caelum (c/ de la Palla, 8), which stocks all kinds of products produced by monasteries around the world (Trappist monk beers, honey, candles, cheese, etc.) Downstairs is a cellar/tea room where ancient foundations of 14th-century baths were uncovered and are now on view.


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