adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lighted candle
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A procession moved through the village carrying lighted candles.
a lit/lighted/burning cigarette
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Someone dropped a lit cigarette and started the fire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
candle
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Up from the ground floor, a lighted candle in his hand, rumbled Mr Beavis.
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He used a familiar and homely test - a lighted candle .
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Or, they may be involved in some form of ritual in which the lighted candle has a religious significance.
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Doubtless the carver mistook a lighted candle for a flower on the illustration he was copying.
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She took a lighted candle in its holder with her, and placed it on the mahogany chest of drawers.
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He had obviously told the servants that he had accidentally set fire to his room by knocking over a lighted candle .
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In the centre of the table was an iced cake with nine lighted candles on it.
window
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Only here and there, as I walked past the seafront hotels, I could see the occasional lighted window .
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There's something about one lighted window in an otherwise dark building that teases the imagination.
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He stood almost on the same spot as before, and watched the lighted windows of a basement flat across the way.
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I had no magic that could open to me any one of those dark doors, lighted windows .
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Ellwood walked down the row of trees, then circled the house, staying well back from the lighted windows .
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He passed the lighted windows of the Incident Room and continued on towards Benson's.
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Broussac, on our way home, stopped to jeer in at the lighted windows of Master Ferrebourg's office.
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As they rounded another bend she saw the lighted windows of the Swan Inn, relief swept through her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gazzer could see Tony going into the lighted ticket-booth to read his comic.
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I've got stories: equipment getting trashed, feet through speakers, Ginger would throw lighted cigarettes in my hair!
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I had no magic that could open to me any one of those dark doors, lighted windows.
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On the white-painted wall of the lobby were several outsize representations of lighted cigarettes with a diagonal red line drawn through them.
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Only here and there, as I walked past the seafront hotels, I could see the occasional lighted window.
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There's something about one lighted window in an otherwise dark building that teases the imagination.