Sentence example with the word 'incense'

incense

adulation, blarney, confirmation, foment, human sacrifice, light up, oiliness, rile, soft soap, sycophancy, whole offering

Definition n. a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned

Last update: August 5, 2016


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She was incensed by abusive words.   [adjective]

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Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly.   [verb]

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The older the gods are, and the more blackened by incense smoke, the more venerable and potent they will be.   [noun]

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Georgette silk filled with handmade incense and buckwheat husks, they are totally hand embroidered in India.   [noun]

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"Free-will and reason obscured in a cloud of incense."   [noun]

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To Him, and Him alone, the strong flame of faith and love rose, like the incense upon an altar--the altar of a girl's trusting heart.   [Please select]

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She came back to us no wiser for years of exile--came back with her priests and her Italian singing-boys, her incense-bearers and golden candlesticks and gaudy rags of Rome.   [Please select]

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Then he supplied him with the finest tobacco that ever ascended in spiral incense to the cloud-compelling Jove.   [Please select]

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He remembered, however, that the door had an iron grate, and the Keep a dungeon, and resolved not to trust himself with his incensed colleagues.   [verb]

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"Look you, you base old person," said the incensed philosopher, "if you do put another jest upon me, I will cleave your skull-piece with this shovels."   [Please select]

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"And I will tell thee, John Balfour," returned Poundtext, deservedly incensed, "I will tell thee what thou art."   [Please select]

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