Sentence examples for candle through from inspiring English sources

Once they managed to shoot a candle through a thick wooden board.

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

By 1905 Santos-Dumont had become convinced that flying airships could be compared to "pushing a candle through a brick wall".

According to Focus magazine, he said keeping control of the crisis when surrounded by such treacherous colleagues was "like walking with a burning candle through a room of nitroglycerine".

By 1905 Santos-Dumont had become convinced that flying airships could be compared to "pushing a candle through a brick wall". Inspired by stories of what the Wright brothers had accomplished in the United States, Santos-Dumont designed and flew a series of heavier-than-air flying machines.

They said one of the young men hurled what was described in court papers as some sort of rocket, or roman candle, through a window of the house in Farmingville when the youths drove by early in the morning of July 5.

At The Free Press and many other papers, editors carried candles through darkened newsrooms to light their way.

Students from Harvard, Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology carried candles through Cambridge and Boston in a walk for peace last night.

The flag was burned to "encourage the violence to continue" after demonstrators had broken windows and shot Roman candles through them, said the decision, written by Judge Frank Magill.

He also experiments with Skype calls, allowing his callers to blow out candles through a subwoofer on the other end of the line.

Saturday night, on the eve of Mexico's presidential election, tens of thousands of protesters marched with candles through Mexico City, according to Elizabeth Guzman, a member of the youth movement known as YoSoy132.