incense

A charcoal ceramic incense burner molded to look like a studded belt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Mourners took turns gently pouring water over a hand of the deceased while others lit incense sticks and folded their hands in prayer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

His father’s embalmed body, dressed in military uniform, lay atop a catafalque in the country’s largest Orthodox cathedral, shrouded in incense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Walking around in flip-flops and burning his incense while bags from Erewhon sit on his countertop, he exudes an aura of California-cool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

There were no sticks of incense now before this pair, nor had there been for many moons, and their paper clothes were tattered and showed their clay bodies through the rents.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

There was a catch: The doctor in question had no idea that funds were being solicited or contributed in her name — and she was incensed.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

So, when the officials alerted the euphoric crowd that the shot didn’t count and the Bulls had actually lost, the hometown fans were incensed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Sanchez was particularly incensed when an 11-acre plot in the city’s Manton neighborhood, on a largely residential street, became a single-story self-storage facility with long rows of garage doors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

This incensed crypto die-hards online who accused Vanguard of “hypocrisy.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Chess Federation made a motion to ban him from its organization; and players—and even some of his closest friends—who’d forgiven his 1992 hate mongering in Yugoslavia, were now totally incensed.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

"The Post Office Horizon scandal is a story so incensing, outrageous and downright ugly that I found it difficult to watch," she said.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024

After the new flavor became popular and sold out, however, boxes started being resold on platforms such as eBay at marked-up prices, incensing the Girl Scouts organization.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

Their bond remained so close that the two had a standing weekly lunch at the White House, incensing fellow Cabinet members.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

But Girardi and Lack continued appealing for years, incensing the 9th Circuit’s chief judge and others on the court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2021

At other times the large mastiff, chained in the court-yard, answered with furious bark the insults of the idle loiterers who made a sport of incensing him.

From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott