Candle

//ˈkændl̩//

"Candle" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Put out the candle. The blackout is over.

The candle has gone out.

The candle was blown out by the wind.

The candle went out instead of having been put out.

The candle went out of itself.

The candle grew shorter and shorter, until at last it went out.

Burning the candle at both ends reduces the candle to wax in a hurry - just like a playboy having a pretty girl on each arm.

The candle flickered a few times and then went out.

Please light a candle.

The candle burned out.

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light a candle

blow out the candles on the birthday cake

snuff out the candle

That vicar used to be an evangelical, but she's crept up the candle in recent years.

That’s why self-consciously Anglo-catholic churches which are a mile high up the paschal candle can do reasonably well in the current climate.

For those towards the top of the candle, receiving holy communion is not the same as a celebration of the mass, and mailing the sacred host demonstrates a serious lack of reverence for the sacrament.

Clergy higher up the candle had different ideas. From the 1920s, Anglo-Papalism had favoured Roman fashions, and many of the Catholic clergy wore Latin cassocks — with plain or lacy cottas, and birettas — for the Offices; and, eschewing the surplice, an amice and alb — usually with Latin vestments — for the eucharist.

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