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Roman candle

NOUN
  1. a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire

How To Use Roman candle In A Sentence

  • It seemed that I had somehow purloined a shopping bag laden with firecrackers, blockbusters, cherry bombs, roman candles and sparklers from the Giftland shop at the nearby St. Louis Street Shopping Centre.
  • Roman candles, squibs and rockets were already in the shops and the protesters had armed themselves.
  • . .because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a common place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop ... Rainandfire Diary Entry
  • It's a great string-soaked leap on from XO, his debut for the Dreamworks label, and a different kind of record from Elliott Smith, Roman Candle and Either / Or, his downbeat and unpolished earlier work.
  • There was a roman candle of sparks from the plane but still they stared. SKORPION'S DEATH
  • Friday night was spent huddled around the fire, launching bottle rockets and roman candles at each other.
  • Roman candles, squibs and rockets were already in the shops and the protesters had armed themselves.
  • He would paint in watercolour the ruby interior of a hakea-seed capsule, a swift moth emerging from its chrysalis in the sand after night rain, the scarlet breast of a regent parrot picking white moth-caterpillars off the green-amber new growth of a dwarf Angophora, green flames of new growth exploding from the tops of grass trees like Roman candles or the epicormic growth of buds bursting out of the burnt bark of eucalypts. Wildwood
  • As I write I work opt the idea -- gasoline, balls of oakum, caps and gunpowder from a few cartridges, Roman candles, and flares blue, red, and green, shallow metal receptacles to carry the explosive and inflammable stuff; and a trigger-like arrangement by which, pulling on a string, the caps are exploded in the gunpowder and fire set to the gasoline-soaked oakum and to the flares and candles. CHAPTER XLIV
  • And he can light the blue touchpaper on a Roman Candle, but it may be impossible to tell whether the ensuing two second fizzing is the intended special effect or a product malfunction.
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