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Signature White Strawberry Bellini Scented Small Tumbler Candle This two-wick candle with mango, pineapple, and strawberry notes is one reviewer’s all-time favorite scent.
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Ali Faccenda, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Each designer candle is slow burning and delicately scented, with a wide throw and burn time around 50 hours.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
As a bonus, when the candle has lost its flicker, the glass jar can live on as a glamorous holder for pens, makeup brushes, cotton swabs, and all sorts of other odds and ends.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
Those violations included flying insects, a mold-like substance on the ice machine and chemical candles stored over a case of single service lids in a dry storage room.
—Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
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Ali Faccenda, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Each designer candle is slow burning and delicately scented, with a wide throw and burn time around 50 hours.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
As a bonus, when the candle has lost its flicker, the glass jar can live on as a glamorous holder for pens, makeup brushes, cotton swabs, and all sorts of other odds and ends.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
Those violations included flying insects, a mold-like substance on the ice machine and chemical candles stored over a case of single service lids in a dry storage room.
—Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for candle
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For a weekend project, incorporate a fire pit, planters, or hanging baskets, or install string lights or accent lanterns to spruce up the space.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Apr. 2025
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The carousel also included snaps of David out of costume in a room decorated with colorful hanging paper lanterns, an artist check-in sign, a gorgeous sunset and more.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Raw images also show a vignette from f/1.2-2, which makes corners appear to be darker than the center in scenes with even lighting.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
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The visitor’s center also has newly installed low-flow plumbing fixtures, energy-efficient windows, and LED lighting.—
Mariette Williams,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2025
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The following day, the couple exchanged handwritten vows in an intimate forest ceremony at an altar lit with gold candelabra.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The most glorious local display of these trees is to be found at the Getty Center terrace garden in Brentwood, where a mass of them are planted near African candelabra (Euphorbia ingens), another magnificent succulent tree.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
22 Mar. 2025
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The flashlight extends from 7 to 22 inches and has a pocket clip and an anti-slip surface design.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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In a video posted on social media, Lahbib listed items important to have to survive 72 hours in a crisis, from food and water to a flashlight, power bank, radio, cash and medication.—
Lili Bayer,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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The Jewish Festival of Lights, observed for eight days and coinciding with Christmas Day this year, includes the lighting of candles on a nine-branched candelabrum called a menorah and eating traditional foods, such as latkes.—
Marianne Mather,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Dec. 2024
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By creating casts of the negative spaces left behind, archaeologists were able to reconstruct the furniture inside the room: a wooden bed, a stool, a chest, a bronze candelabrum and a table that once held bronze, glass and ceramic objects.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Aug. 2024
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Theo, an egotist, has just been made master lighthouse keeper at the new Gininwabiko lighthouse.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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The public will be able to access the onsite parking lot, beach, lighthouse park, public park to the north, fire pit, dune area, grotto area, and exterior green space during business hours and seven days a week, according to city documents.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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Ensure your vehicle is visible to others by using low-beam headlights, which also activate your taillights.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Oc Register,
10 Apr. 2025
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On March 14’s opening day, season ticket holders, their headlights cutting through the pre-dawn darkness, lined up hours before the park’s opening.—
Rebecca Deurlein,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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An ensemble of collaborators played with this duality: British designer Lee Broom exclusively debuted the Fendi Idol chandelier, for example.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 2025
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Geometric chandeliers in the restaurant and bars add art deco flair, while chesterfields and wingback chairs create inviting nooks in the Library Lounge, which faces a private yacht marina.—
Jennifer Flowers,
AFAR Media,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Candle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/candle. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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