candle

Example Sentences

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Cigarette butts litter the floor, moldy food is left to decay on greasy dishes and the ceiling is stained with candle soot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The Sparks couldn’t hold a candle to UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

A bearish evening star completed on Nov. 12 and it sank $200 until a bullish morning star completed on Feb. 25, a bullish island reversal on March 30, and a bullish engulfing candle on Monday.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Examining the monthly chart shows March ending a five-month losing streak with a bullish inverted hammer candle.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

They had started a campfire just outside the cave’s entrance, and someone had put a box of matches and a short but perfectly usable candle stub in a holder not two feet from Penelope’s pillow.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood