candle
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It’s your job to manage both and make sure that you are not burning the candle at both ends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Moments after he blows out the candle on his cake, John’s father places a rifle in his hands.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Argentina “doesn’t hold a candle to the greatest rivalry in sports—Barcelona vs. Real Madrid.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The candles retail between $42 to $50 for a pair, and recently, she developed a handsome pewter candle shaver that will be released in the winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
She chose Ousmane to write the Lady's full name, then took it, dipped the edge of it in a nearby prayer candle, and watched it ignite.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Crowds arrived several hours before the funeral began to light candles outside the church, accompanied by a choir on a loudspeaker in the sunshine.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
They pulled tiny candles from pouches and lighted them, burned incense, dropped coins in the offering box and prayed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
They also laid flowers and left candles on the star in the heart of Hollywood that commemorates her decades-long career.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
So I came home eager to remind everyone that we have something special in California, and that we should all be lighting candles on the cake celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Grandma gets the candles, oils, and cloth ready.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Unlike with most poultry, the eggs cannot be candled to check on the embryo growing inside for the 52 days between laying and hatching.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Early on, she candled eggs for a poultry farm while he played “frisbee on the green.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
If an egghead is candled, what shows up?
From Time Magazine Archive
The modern egghead has his head candled by the light of psychoanalysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
When at length the candled branches lay upon the table, the light of the lanterns overhead revealed, as he had hoped, a second paper.
From Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple
Unclear, though certificates on the walls congratulate her on her mastery of ear candling and reiki.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2015
His wife, when not mothering their five boys and three girls, spent grueling days standing at a local produce house as she examined poultry eggs under a light - what they call candling.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
Sam Cruz, a 12-year IRS employee who works in candling, said he finds something left behind maybe two or three times for every thousand envelopes.
From Washington Post
The "ear debris" left in the candle's hollows, assumed by aficionados to be proof--however icky--that candling is doing its stuff, is nothing more than melted wax from the candle itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
The specific kinds of egg rotting bacteria have not been worked out, but the following three groups of bacterially infected eggs are readily distinguishable in the practical work of egg candling.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
