How to Use votive in a Sentence

votive

adjective

• The fire is believed to have started in the vestibule, near votive candles, Breen said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• The lights dimmed, and a waitress made her away around the room placing votive holders on the tables.
  — Aaron Hicklin, New York Times, 27 July 2019
• This set features three votive candles in dark rum, leather, and cannabis.
  — Bon Appétit, 5 Aug. 2021
• Keep in mind that the glass votive holders shown in the photo aren’t included, though.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2022
• The advocates chanted and lit a row of votive candles in the empty street.
  — Curbed, 11 May 2022
• The seeds would sprout and the figures would be dried in the sun, wrapped in linen and placed on the waterway in votive barques guided to Canopus.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• Dress them up with votive candles and tea lights ($7, Target).
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2022
• At five o’clock the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-mast for five days while 500 votive candles flickered on the steps of the South Portico.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• For a warm touch but votive candles in sparkly gold glass holders.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• Dress up any room—or tabletop—with a vintage tin votive tray or cupcake pan.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2022
• The mourners taped a photos of the woman and her children to the back of black plastic chairs and spelled her name out on the sidewalk with small votive candles.
  — Katie Mettler, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
• The Rosary is prayed each evening at 6 p.m.; votive candles are available and prayer requests may be written throughout the Feast.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• To illuminate your jack-o’-lantern, place a tea-light candle in a glass votive holder and set it in the bottom of the pumpkin.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2021
• Light from votive candles will make the silver glasses sparkle.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 17 Sep. 2021
• All six of the new Yuletide scents start at just $2 and come in various sizes from tiny tea lights and votive lights to pillar candles and large jars.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2018
• Across the empty nave was a small village of votive candles, lit by the living to remember their dead.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 May 2017
• These days, votive and jar candles are all the rage, but there’s something to be said for classic taper candles.
  — Jennifer Blair, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• Courtesy of Pottery Barn Add a warm glow to your home with a set of colorful votive candles.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2020
• Two months after Cano was shot twice in the back by a police officer in the same park, the votive candles framing his picture are still lit.
  — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2021
• It is surrounded by some of her favorite red and white roses, and votive candles.
  — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2020
• But since all three are flammable, don't put a candle inside your pumpkin — use a flameless votive instead.
  — Madison Alcedo, Woman's Day, 8 Oct. 2020
• All over the city, people hung Mylar balloons on telephone poles and lined the sidewalk with votive candles, makeshift shrines for victims.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2020
• Drop them in a votive holder of your choice—metallics, patterns, and warm colors give off a light shadow when alight—and place them around a room for romantic mood lighting.
  — Kaitlin Clark, Curbed, 23 July 2018
• Add red-colored corn syrup to votive candles for a bloody addition to your creepy collection.
  — Mark Addison, Seventeen, 10 July 2017
• A second vigil was held at Bayfront Park, where more than 300 people came together to burn votive candles.
  — Alexandria Bordas, miamiherald, 14 Aug. 2017
• There are but five tables, double-draped with thick tablecloths and topped with votive candles beneath opaque stenciled domes.
  — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
• On Wednesday, about 20 of Luna’s family members and friends returned to the spot, huddling over a makeshift memorial of votive candles arranged in the shape of a heart.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• There are stark critiques of how companies like Amazon and a maker of votive candles handled safety concerns as the storms bore down.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2021
• After the bullet shells get counted, the blood dries and the votive candles burn out, people peer down from housing-project windows and see crime scenes gone cold: a band of yellow police tape blowing in the breeze.
  — Benjamin Mueller and Al Baker, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2016
• The Sweet Escape Bring a winter landscape to your Christmas tablescape—add votive candles to slabs of birch for a simple but stunning centerpiece.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024