incense

Example Sentences

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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

"The situation is terrible, we don't know what's going to happen. Everything is very expensive... I hope it doesn't go up more," Felicidad Flores, a 67-year-old street vendor of incense, told AFP in La Paz.

From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025

She lights a stick of incense and puts it between her teeth.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi