How to Use votive candle in a Sentence

votive candle

noun
  • Paint the lanterns black and place a votive candle inside the pumpkin.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Customers pop the trunk just long enough to receive a six-course meal, a votive candle and a long-stem rose.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2020
  • At the foot of the grave there are four votive candles, along with messages, still legible.
    — Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
  • To create, fill a trifle dish with a mix of champagne and wine corks and top with a glass votive candle.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Only use a votive candle to keep chocolate fondue warm at the table.
    — Eric Velasco, AL.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The Ninth Hour is a story with the simple grace of a votive candle in a dark church.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Dozens of votive candles and flower bouquets lined the sidewalk where Berry was killed.
    — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Choose a large ceramic platter or tray and fill it with pinecones, sprigs of holly berries, and votive candles.
    — Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Fill each cup with a votive candle, pinecone, sprigs of hypericum berries, or evergreens.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Paint the pumpkin stems gold to connect them to the garland, then fill in with golden votive candle holders.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Accessorize your pumpkin with votive candles in varying shapes and sizes.
    — Micaela English, Town & Country, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Don't underestimate the big impact a few votive candles can have.
    — Tessa Cooper, The Spruce, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, fans have formed a makeshift shrine at the site of the crash, filling it with votive candles, marigolds, handwritten notes and cat photos.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Others leave flowers and votive candles at a colorful, makeshift altar.
    — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The bundle includes a milk bath, body scrub, and body oil, but the best part is the palo santo votive candle to engage your senses even more.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Among the memorial’s flowers and votive candles, friends also left behind a soccer ball.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
  • Set the arrangement on cut evergreen branches and a set of small votive candles in mercury glass vases.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The attendees wore jackets, scarves and beanies, and were handed votive candles and flowers.
    — Kathleen Quinn, Sacbee.com, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Clusters of gourds mixed with votive candles make the perfect Thanksgiving meal backdrop.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 26 July 2023
  • On a table below them, a framed photo of Lester’s smizing headshot was adorned with flowers and votive candles.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Bouley was a very beautiful restaurant, softly lighted with votive candles and smelling of ripe apples piled in baskets in the foyer.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Despite the rain, hundreds perched on the damp bleachers, clutching votive candles or lighting up theircellphones.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • When guests first entered, a large floral arrangement of white flowers was surrounded by votive candles of varying heights.
    — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • These mercury glass trees from Better Homes & Gardens can be placed over an electric votive candle to emit a soft glow in any space.
    — Shea Simmons, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Simply cut a one-inch circle into each pumpkin, scooping out the centers with a tablespoon, and insert votive candles.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In a ballroom on the thirty-fourth floor, young men in blazers sat at round white tables with votive candles, scrolling on their phones and swirling cocktails, waiting for dinner to start.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • All that illuminated us were dozens of votive candles at the base of her feet, most bearing Guadalupe’s resplendent image.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The dining room has the white-cloth look of an earlier era when floors were carpeted, the wait staff wore ties and votive candles flickered romantically.
    — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Their Grand Harbour is a spectacle of golden-age drama, glowing at sunset like a votive candle.
    — Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2020
  • Already blackened and sticky with soot, dust, and residue arising from millions of tourists, worshippers, and votive candles, the windows lack the yellow-powder look.
    — Christa Lesté-Lasserre, Science | AAAS, 12 Mar. 2020

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