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

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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.

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