Sentence examples for candlestick from inspiring English sources

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candlestick

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A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.

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The house in which Carole grew up has mauve and dark-red rooms that are shadow-struck and decorated with golden candlestick holders, old family portraits and statues of dogs, birds and deer.

Tall, suave and handsome like a candlestick, a Giacometti statue," recalled one admirer he swanned about, declaring that he would one day write the great American novel.

The rushlight is dipped only once or a few times and remains too thin and soft to stand in a candlestick (many dippings produce a candle).

Because Mexico seems to have a peculiar receptivity to art impulses regardless of source, the area is distinguished by a folk imagination that can create a towering, multifigured, ceramic candlestick, elaborate figures and models of straw, and fantastic fireworks.

Most important among the earliest styles was the mitsu-gusoku, an arrangement of three or five articles often consisting of an incense burner, a candlestick in the form of a stork, and a vase of flowers.

As belonging to the art associated with Bernward, one must also reckon the seven-branched candlestick in the Minster of Essen (90.6 inches [230 centimetres] high; before 1011) and the bronze crucifix at Essen-Werden (42.5 inches [108 centimetres] high; c. 1060), a late product of the same school.

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"They are butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers," scoffs a European notary.Both traditions have their drawbacks.

At Butchoff Antiques in Kensington, a rich part of London, bright lights illuminate prancing cherubim candlestick-holders and dark ebony furniture, which is especially popular with Russians.

Remarkably, the earthquake struck just before the start of the third game of the 1989 World Series, which was being played in San Francisco's Candlestick Park between the two Bay Area baseball teams, the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics.

San Francisco 49ers tackle Bernard Pollard said his team were glad when the lights went out because they suffered an almost identical experience in a nationally televised game at Candlestick Park last year.

One of the 49ers' four regular-season defeats was against today's opponents at Candlestick Park.

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