Sconces is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCONCES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SCONCE, to entrench, to screen
NOUN:
• a candle holder that is attached to a wall with an ornamental bracket
• a flaming torch or candle secured in a sconce
• a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate.
• a shelter or screen from fire or the weather.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fine

Words related to SCONCES

sconce10 sconced12 sconcing13

Words that contain SCONCES

ensconces13 insconces13 pigsconces17

How to use SCONCES in a sentence

• It was well lit, as for a marriage feast, and I think there were a score of candles or more burning in holders on the table, or in sconces on the wall.
• He rose and began to pace the room, choosing a part where his face evaded the light of the candles that stood in heavy silver sconces on the dark mahogany.
• I fumbled round the glass, which was large, with handsome brass sconces, to find the blind cord.
• There were two big mirrors in the room, each with a pair of sconces bearing candles, and on the mantelshelf, too, were more candles in china candlesticks.
• On the rough walls there were also large sconces of burnished silver but poorly filled with tallow candles.
• In the bare spaces between these silver sconces were the heads of wild animals mingled with many rifles, both old and new, and other arms of the hunter.
• The furniture was worth the ransom of a city, and waxen torches in sconces of silver lighted the chamber, burning night and day.
• Many a song was raised by those who tottered about with trickling sconces, half drunk with whiskey, and half stupid with beating.
• Large wax-lights, in silver sconces, illuminated the apartment, which was reasonably furnished.
• For general lighting, wall sconces, lanterns, or brackets are preferable.
• The box-stalls were small display-rooms, hung with tapestries and lighted with candles in old French sconces.
• Ornamental sconces held the glass cups for my food and there were decorated hoops to swing in.
• There was a bright fire burning in the hall, and lights were in the sconces on the walls.
• The candles in sconces furnished the only other illumination.
• It was not yet dark, and the light of the candles in sconces and on the table met the amethyst light that came through, the wide-flung lattice.
• He has cracked but two sconces since we left, and these were on my behalf.
• This strange scene was lighted up by candles in high and heavy brass sconces.
• And over all the grave oak walls and the bright sconces and the taper flames blown about by the eddying gusts from the whirlpool beneath.
• Buxton at a sign from Mary blew out the four tapers that were burning in the sconces.
• They burned in sconces on the walls and in tall candlesticks on the table, while a log fire on the great stone hearth so added to the glow that the place was as bright as day.
• Tall wax-candles twinkled everywhere, in great gilt chandeliers depending from the ceiling, in sconces stuck about the window ledges, in candelabra branching from the walls.
• I stood before the mirror with its lighted sconces, gazing grimly at my sober face while Cato tied my queue-ribbon and dusted my silken coat-skirts.
• Down the hallway I halted in the light of the sconces and looked at the strange mark on my finger.
• My grandfather stepped upon it, seized one of the bronze sconces above the mantel and gave it a sharp turn.
• Candles in sconces were reflected by the polished, dark floor.
• There had been a quarrel in the theatre and much confusion consequent upon some persons flinging the candles and sconces on the stage.
• Chairs and tables, lamps and sconces, and every least detail had evidently been sought with patient care in furniture warehouses.

Similar words containing SCONCE without suffix s

sconce10 asconce11 sconced12 ensconce12 insconce12 ensconced14 ensconces13 insconced14 insconces13 pigsconce16 disconcert15 misconceit16 pigsconces17 disconcerts16 misconceits17 misconceive20 disconcerted18 misconceited19 misconceived22 misconceiver21 misconceives21 disconcerting19 disconcertion18 misconceiting20 misconceivers22 misconceiving23 misconception21 disconcertedly23 disconcertions19 disconcertment21 misconceptions22 disconcertingly24 disconcertments22

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