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Example sentences for "unsnuffed"

Lexicographically close words:
unslung; unsmiling; unsmirched; unsmoked; unsnapped; unsociability; unsociable; unsocial; unsoftened; unsoiled
  1. Déroulède for a while was left alone near the card table, where the unsnuffed candles began smouldering in their sockets.

  2. A little silence fell, the bronze clock struck nine, and the unsnuffed candles cast a strong fluttering light over the two quiet figures and sent faint curls of smoke towards the high dark ceiling.

  3. My life hath been Hell," answered the Countess vehemently; she cast the pearls down on the table beside the flaring unsnuffed candle.

  4. He had left the wick of the candle unsnuffed till it had risen higher than the flame, and had burned into an odd pent-house shape at the top, from which morsels of the charred cotton fell off from time to time in little flakes.

  5. The candle had burned down nearly to the last morsel of tallow, but the top of the unsnuffed wick had just fallen off, and the light in the little room was, for the moment, fair and full.

  6. I saw the outline of a form under the clothes, but the face was hid by the hangings: the nurse I had spoken to in the garden sat in an easy-chair asleep; an unsnuffed candle burnt dimly on the table.

  7. By his side was an unsnuffed candle, an empty bottle, and a tumbler with a little raw brandy left in the bottom of it.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsnuffed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.