How to Use incense in a Sentence

incense

1 of 2 noun
Definition of incensenext
Synonyms for incensenext
  • Thick scents of pot, incense, and grilling meats filled the air.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • Flaky ashes swirled in the air, which smelled of incense.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2022
  • Most of the scents consist of five packets of incense sticks.
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The pot and ceramic cups are served on a tray with incense.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • There is rich fruit, spice, and some incense on the palate, along with some herbal notes like lavender and thyme.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 24 May 2023
  • Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark its doorway with strange symbols?
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • It was used to pour incense onto fires as an offering to the gods or the dead.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The scents appear to correlate with the types of incense that wound up inside of the pitchers.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The smell of incense and pickled cabbage in her mother’s kitchen.
    — Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Calming music plays softly, and incense burns in the corner of the room.
    — By Chloe Herring, Brooke Henderson and Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In front of a wall of Catholic icons in gold frames, the smoke of copal, the Mesoamerican incense, cut swirls through shafts of sunlight.
    — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024
  • At the funeral service in a Greek Catholic church in central Lviv, incense filled the air.
    — Megan Specia Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • Using an incense stick is simple: Just light for 10-20 seconds and then blow out the flame.
    — Annie Burdick, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2022
  • There are a golden figurine, flowers, incense, a gong, and a large book from which the senior monk reads and chants.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
  • One runs a goblet with copal incense up and down the bodies of his colleagues.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • On one side the store had a Japanese theme, with stands of blond wood holding packages of incense.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The smell of incense and the sight of turntable listening stations make any patron feel welcome to the evanescent world of records.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Her mother, Silvia, would light incense and place water, salt and sugar to purify the space ahead of the Day of the Dead.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The pine and greens are softened with patchouli, incense and an oakmoss accord that is outdoorsy yet cozy.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The compounds can reveal the ingredients, and scent of, incense, drugs and food.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
  • This luxurious cologne is heavy on the oud, and ups the ante by adding clove, cinnamon, and incense.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 22 Nov. 2022
  • On the nose, there are big notes of baked cinnamon rolls, incense, sweet vanilla and nutmeg.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2022
  • It's made of bamboo and just waiting to hold all of those great bath time objects, like wine, books, candles, and incense.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Ask the Swinging Friar to swing a thurible of incense around Petco.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Each volador takes a turn walking around the tree with the incense and flowers, and sprinkling it with holy water and aguardiente.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Bacon bits, cumin and dusty earth on the nose with a touch of more texture and structure with sandalwood incense on the finish.
    — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • Sandy began the day by burning incense and then getting her hair brushed by her mother.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The shop, with an all-white interior that reads more high-end weed store than bar, sorts scents by type: leather with smoke, incense with oud.
    — Curbed, 22 July 2022
  • From spraying it on fabrics to using it as your room’s aerosol, the fragrance is multi-use and comes as an incense as well.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Its yummy floral scent is a signature blend from Parfums de Marly, infused with unique notes like Turkish rose, incense, and vetiver.
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 13 Mar. 2024
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incense

2 of 2 verb
  • When, on his next visit to Manet, Degas saw what his friend had done, he was incensed.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Vichy officials were incensed at the presence of Jews in the royal court.
    — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
  • He has been incensed that his money — and tens of millions of dollars from donors — has gone to legal costs.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Students in the hallway become incensed, getting in Roth’s face and yelling.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Nolan didn’t have a movie slated to open during this period, but he was incensed by the precedent.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Labor unions remain incensed by the change and asked workers to voice their discontent by taking to the streets this May Day.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 1 May 2023
  • The response Many in the town of about 5,000 residents are incensed with the state and Norfolk Southern Railway response.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • These close ties have incensed China, which has called on the United States to stop supplying arms to Taiwan.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • Why are longtime staff, faculty incensed over U of L salary changes?
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2023
  • When Sarah Marpell’s 5-year-old daughter came home from school and told her mom the lunchroom monitor called her a monkey, she was incensed.
    — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Ivar Cole was once again incensed that Valhalla wasn’t wearing antlers.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But most workers side with Tsipursky’s reasoning, and many are incensed by the needless action.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • At dusk, Peterson walked with the three children through the metal gate of the Haitian Coast Guard station, at once incensed and relieved that he’d been allowed to take them.
    — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Pistons coach Monty Williams was incensed after the game and delivered a furious rant in the media room.
    — Sam Joseph, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • When a frustrated neighbor called police, the co-owner was incensed.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The only bright spot for the visitors came when Kyle Palmieri, incensed over a no-call after Brandon Carlo smacked him into the end boards, got his revenge with a tap-in on his next shift.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Some House Republicans were incensed at the extension, which is designed to buy more time to reach a compromise.
    — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The decision, according to History.com, would incense abolitionists and serve as a stepping stone to the Civil War.
    — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • He was incensed by the stance of the European Union, which has challenged a key tenet of Indonesia’s industrial designs: a ban on the export of nickel ore.
    — Peter S. Goodman Ulet Ifansasti, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • As one of the most successful logisticians in the world, Bakker was incensed that every seven seconds a child was dying of hunger despite there being enough food in the world.
    — Judith Magyar, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Biden can sell his party on the fact that the deal falls far short of the draconian demands made by the GOP’s right flank—who had previously been running the show and are now incensed at being left behind.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
  • Fellow members were particularly incensed because her initial dissent came in the form of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
  • Men began to take note, some personally offended by the way the fictional Margot sees her date and incensed by the story’s success.
    — Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Customers were incensed that their Tesla vehicles were falling well short of the advertised range, sometimes by as much as half the number of miles that they were purported to get on a full charge.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2023
  • When Gyorgy, a right-wing Orban supporter, finds out that Abel failed history, he is incensed and shames his son for letting down the family.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Napoli was incensed by the sending off and other refereeing decisions and no one spoke to the media apart from De Laurentiis.
    — Daniella Matar, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Hopefully smart people are thinking of interesting options/routes for getting to what the WGA needs now that its members are incensed.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • Ronald Reagan was incensed by Israeli lobbying against his high-tech aircraft sale to Saudi Arabia.
    — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • One darkly funny scene finds a Trump flag-waving homeowner in Wisconsin incensed with the Democrats for overturning Roe.
    — Adam Fleming Petty, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Timbers fans, coaches and players alike were incensed with the call, and a match rife with atmosphere and physical, exciting play quickly took an ugly turn.
    — oregonlive, 26 July 2023

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