incense

Example Sentences

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With incense hanging in the air, and sunlight illuminating gold-painted biblical murals on the cathedral walls, the priest urged mourners to help others, too.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

It’s beat up and old, and smells like incense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Those threats incense many in Mexico, where resentment lingers over past American invasions, including during the 1846 war, which ended with Mexico ceding more than half of its territory, including California, to the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

It smells of incense inside and we light a candle.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

When all had been bought, even to fresh squares of beancurd, shivering in a jelly upon its leaf, he went to a candlemaker’s shop and there he bought a pair of incense sticks.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck