incense

Example Sentences

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Photos showed her praying while holding incense sticks and comforting bereaved people near displayed names and portraits of at least two soldiers.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

It’s beat up and old, and smells like incense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

It smells of incense inside and we light a candle.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

In other instances, candle wax has damaged some of the internal stones, along with burnt incense sticks leaving thick soot which has blackened some stones beyond cleaning.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025

It was as though she felt that the incense belonged to them both; it was a moment of marriage.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck