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Example sentences for "lighted candle"

  • An animal confined within it will sooner or later die; so too, a lighted candle placed in it will be at once extinguished.

  • Place a lighted candle, marked A, at a certain distance from No.

  • Pilate de Rosio, having on one occasion inhaled hydrogen gas, was rash enough to approach a lighted candle, when an explosion took place in his mouth, which he says "was so violent that he fancied all his teeth were driven out.

  • Set a lighted candle on the plate, and cover it with a tall receiver.

  • Prick the outlines in every part with a fine pin or needle, then place the pricked drawing in a perpendicular position, and put a lighted candle behind it.

  • To make the Appearance of a Flash of Lightning when any one enters a Room with a lighted Candle.

  • If any one then enters the room with a lighted candle, the air will inflame; but the combustion will be so sudden, and of so short duration, as to occasion no danger.

  • There should be a sconce with a lighted candle, placed on each side of the two glasses in the wainscot, to enlighten the faces of the persons who look in them, or the experiment will not have so remarkable an effect.

  • If any one then enters the room with a lighted candle, the air will inflame, while the combustion will be so sudden, and of so short a duration, as to occasion no danger.

  • To make the appearance of a Flash of Lightning, when any one enters a Room with a lighted Candle.

  • The Bishop led me up to the altar, and put a lighted candle into my hand.

  • In the midst of this spring stood a tree, bearing on every limb a lighted candle, and on the top, the image of Christ and a dove.

  • Here again I let down a lighted candle, with more hopes of getting it to the bottom, as no part of the cave drained into the pit.

  • In using it, dissolve a small piece of the cement in a silver teaspoon over a lighted candle.

  • From the uncurtained windows of the chaplain's house on the hill beamed the newly-lighted candle.

  • My sister armed herself with a lighted candle and a box of matches, and together they crept softly downstairs on their way to the kitchen.

  • If I am asked by any one to say what her aura looks like, I do so to the best of my ability, but at that complacent moment it is a very tame affair, much like the aura that any one may see surrounding a lighted candle.

  • I knew there were several unoccupied rooms on either side of me, and taking my lighted candle I placed it, still lit, in a basin on the marble-topped washstand.

  • A lighted candle at one end; the name on the front edge of the shelf.

  • In one design, a lighted candle is placed upon a closed book, which is labelled Ex Libris Volume, and is presumably filled with rare treasures among our very early American plates.

  • In this plate the skull is placed upon an open book, between a lighted candle and a few flowers in a vase.

  • Or, instead of pouring down water, a lighted candle or a piece of smouldering brown paper may be held over the entrance of the pipe, or the grating over a trap, when the air will be driven back.

  • A lighted candle is generally used to test an atmosphere suspected to contain carbonic acid: but it is found that air that will support combustion will contain sufficient of this gas to cause insensibility.

  • They were instances of the almost inconceivable folly of seeking for an escape of gas with a lighted candle.

  • In close still evenings if a lighted candle is held over the surface, flashes of blue lambent flame may sometimes be perceived spreading to a considerable distance.

  • I, and also the door immediately behind it, he holds a lighted candle at the back door (as mentioned above) and moves the entire machine to and fro with a view of convincing the company that the cupboard No.

  • To this back door he holds a lighted candle.

  • He held a lighted candle; his piercing eyes flashed in the darkness.

  • Taking a lighted candle, he made his way into the lower part of the keep.

  • Jock, if your story has made you as dry as it has made me you're main thirsty; go down and bring up beer for two, and a lighted candle.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lighted candle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aged woman; apparent reason; checked himself; consume them; dark yellow; easy stages; for instance; forget the; great spirits; international drug; just east; lighted candle; lighted lamp; lighted match; lighted taper; lighted torch; looking south; love affair; pushing forward; saith unto the churches; seems never; she found; small island; think you will find; till then; various plants