candlelight
the light of a candle.
a dim artificial light.
twilight; dusk.
Origin of candlelight
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How to use candlelight in a sentence
She has prepared a special evening that consists of dessert for two over candlelight, a gift and an announcement.
‘Twelve Minutes’: Grueling repetition with an interesting payoff | Christopher Byrd | August 27, 2021 | Washington PostThe men huddled in the passageway in the flickering candlelight.
How Two WWI POWs Conned Their Way Out With a Ouija Board | Margalit Fox | May 31, 2021 | The Daily BeastJust see the candlelight on her face and just stare at her and just order dinner and never eat.
Everyone wants Garth Brooks on their side. He just wants everyone to get along. | Emily Yahr | May 13, 2021 | Washington PostOn Sunday night, a man was fatally shot near where a candlelight vigil was being held for Ocran.
Police identify man fatally shot by Gaithersburg officers | Rebecca Tan, Martin Weil | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostThe Haunting of Bly Manor ostensibly works off of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, a novella I love so much that I make it a point to re-read it on Halloween, sometimes in the dark by candlelight.
Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor is a calm, loving study in how to exorcise your ghosts | Aja Romano | October 9, 2020 | Vox
The conference had already scheduled a candlelight vigil for those who died of AIDS.
‘There Are People Who Should Live’: Good Confronts Evil in Ukraine | Michael Daly | July 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTObama happened to be in town the following Thursday, when there was a candlelight vigil for Rushing.
Brooklyn Shooting Hits Close to Bill de Blasio’s Park Slope Home | Michael Daly | July 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe see Tarly and Maester Aemon sitting up by candlelight, “trading tales of lost love”—until Aemon cuts them short.
Game of Thrones’ 'The Watchers on the Wall': The Battle of Castle Black Is One For the Ages | Andrew Romano | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn other moments, she appears angelic, as candlelight dances on her cherubic cheeks.
The vibe of the chain has been described as “yoga-flavored” with parts of classes conducted by candlelight.
SoulCycle Is a Booming Exercise Chain for the 1 Percent | Filipa Ioannou | July 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe no longer live in an age when down-trodden laborers meet by candlelight with the ban of the law upon their meeting.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe people dined by candlelight, and the darkness of the night is represented as Egyptian.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThen, just as the candlelight was gasping and shimmering blue in the bowl of the candlestick, he fell asleep.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieIn the bewitching candlelight the keyboard trembled and shimmered like water to a low wind.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieShe opened the door, standing in bold relief against the candlelight, and shot her hands far into the dark night.
Tess of the Storm Country | Grace Miller White
British Dictionary definitions for candlelight
/ (ˈkændəlˌlaɪt) /
the light from a candle or candles: they ate by candlelight
(as modifier): a candlelight dinner
dusk; evening
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