incense
Example Sentences
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Light a candle or a bit of incense.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
"Still, being together with our people again, coming home is such a blessing," she said, as the smell of incense wafted through her house, out towards jasmine trees in bloom.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
It’s beat up and old, and smells like incense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 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
But Wang Lung said stoutly, “I have never had any good from that old man in heaven, yet. Incense or no incense, he is the same in evil. Let us go and see the land.”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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