candle power
- a variation of candlepower.
Example Sentences
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Sports have intense candle power, and have as a result been host to closely examined, and occasionally punished, speech.
From Economist ● May 30, 2018
This article is a guide to the opportunities that await students who who have the candle power and motivation to learn and put knowledge to work.
From Forbes ● Nov. 30, 2014
The combined candle power of all the lighthouses and beacons will be 5,279,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lamp is 9 candle power, gives one-sixtieth the illumination of full moonlight, i.e., barely enough to distinguish a pedestrian at 40 feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The different degrees of wealth provide their respective scale of eligible members to make up their circle of society, and the lesser lights are eclipsed or paled into insignificance by the grander candle power.
From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Tileston, Merrill
