Sentence examples for candle shines from inspiring English sources

I was and still am astonished as how exactly like a good deed in a naughty world the light of one candle shines.

The winter's dawn it was, a sickly filtering accumulation of daylight, and the light of gas and candles shone yellow in the windows to show where people were astir.

A lumen, simply put, is the amount of light one candle can shine on a one-foot-square section of a surface.

"Where is your sting o death?" I sing at the Easter vigil where we light the Christ candle to shine within the darkness.

There will be uplifting speeches, a Global Citizens concert hosted by Stephen Colbert and Salma Hayak in Central Park, and plenty of candles to shine the way towards a better future.

The ritual involved the cutting down of a pine tree and installing it, branches covered with candles to shine the way home through the darkening days.

Candling involves shining a bright light into the egg, allowing you to see its contents and check whether it is developing properly.

When I asked a selection of Atletico fans for a snapshot of what Torres meant to them, their answers were emphatic and effusive: "hero", "icon" and, most poetically, "a shining candle in a sea of darkness".

Kempelen then opened the rear door and shone a candle through, thus assuring the audience that there was nothing hidden.

Don't blow out my candle to make yours shine brighter, in other words.

These people shine a candle for others.