'candle flickering' is correct and can be used in written English
You might use it in a description of a romantic dinner or a spooky house: "The only light in the room came from a single candle flickering in the corner."
Still, we keep a novena candle flickering for being bold and putting a stake in the ground for what we believe in.
"In Denmark our basic needs are covered," Marie Tourell Søderberg told me when she hosted breakfast for me at her apartment – candle flickering, bread straight from the oven.
The Bishes have also received more than 700 sympathy cards, and, they said, the cards help, baskets of them lying at their feet near a shelf holding a candle flickering before Molly's junior prom picture.
He's waiting in the gloom when I show up, sitting on a sofa in a completely darkened hotel room with the only light coming from a fake candle flickering on the coffee table.
"I have always disliked the sort of biography which states 'X lay on the bed and watched the candle flickering on the roof beams' when there is no evidence X did so," states Muriel Spark in the introduction to her study of Mary Shelley, originally published in 1951 and reissued here in a revised version.
Some have regular white glowing lights, while others have a red glow, which can mimic a candle flickering in the pumpkin.
A blueberry-scented candle flickered.
Natalie sighed but did not open her eyes; the candle flickered, nearly going out.
The candle flickered in the breeze from the open, but barred, windows, and then danced towards the mosquito net on Esther's bed.
She held four 3-by-5 note cards and a lime green ink pen as a purple candle flickered on the table.
Tonight the Siq is lit by candles, flickering beside the path.
