The girl happily blew out the candles.

Meaning: The girl was glad to blow out the candles on her birthday cake.

Choice of Words: Happily means feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. Blew means to force air out of the mouth, often to extinguish a flame.

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The young lady extinguished the birthday candles with joy.

Meaning: This sentence tells us that the girl was very happy to blow out the candles on her birthday cake.

Choice of Words: The young lady is another way to say girl, and extinguished is a more formal way to say blew out. Birthday tells us that the candles were on a birthday cake, and joy tells us that the girl was very happy.

The jubilant child expelled air onto the candles, causing them to cease combustion.

Meaning: This sentence tells us that the girl was very happy to blow out the candles on her birthday cake, and that she did so by blowing air on them.

Choice of Words: The jubilant child is a more descriptive way to say girl, and expelled air is a more scientific way to say blew. Combustion is a scientific term for burning, so causing them to cease combustion means making them stop burning.

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