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
I recognize the smell of vanilla incense because Beth’s been burning it recently.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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