Sentence examples for a stick of burning from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a stick of burning" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe an object that is on fire, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "He held a stick of burning wood as he walked through the dark forest."
Alternatives: "a burning stick" or "a flaming stick".

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The real challenge would be keeping it alive on my return, like cupping a stick of burning incense against the mountain wind.

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Many of its songs are intended for the dance floor, but just as many are better enjoyed on the couch, perhaps with a cigarette, or for nonsmokers a stick of incense burning nearby.

Sticks of burning incense had been wedged into the coffin to fight the awful smell.

She strode slowly onstage with a stick of clove-smelling incense burning in her mouth, calm and in control.

During the first week of American airstrikes, Quetta was a stick of dynamite with the fuse burning.

He arranges slices of banana and a handful of rice on a tray woven from palm fronds, burning a stick of incense to mingle his prayers for a rich harvest with the fragrant smoke that now drifts across the slopes.

Everyone needs a hippie to be their festival spiritual guide, safely getting you from stage to stage while burning a stick of Palo Santo to keep the vibes up heavy.

The air is scented with a profusion of burning joss sticks, stuck in the earth around the graves.

But it does show changes at this time in the ways that cycad nuts an important crop that Australians had long cultivated by the "fire-stick" method of burning vegetation that competes with the trees that bear them were processed.

Or a stick of Dynamite?

A stick of incense.

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