carol
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The mother and daughter sat together to play a piece they know well by Scottish composer Erland Cooper, for Catherine's Christmas carol concert.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
Britain's Princess Catherine and her daughter Charlotte have teamed up to perform a piano duet in a prerecorded clip for a Wednesday replay of a Christmas carol service.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
In her Christmas message, the Archbishop said she had chosen a passage from the Gospel of John about finding light in the darkness, a popular choice at carol services.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
The King will be seen standing in front of Christmas trees which were brought to decorate the Abbey for the Princess of Wales's carol concert held earlier this month.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
The triplets actually sang a Christmas carol they’d composed themselves.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
Girl Scouts sing carols as onlookers sip cocoa at the annual lighting ceremony.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
The dazzling display of lights, accompanied by religious and festive imagery and soundtracked by Filipino rap and Christmas carols, is part of the annual Giant Lantern Festival.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
Walk through any mall at this time of year and you’re bound to hear the typical sounds of the season: Christmas carols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Her first memories of Christmas are as a child in the town of Lviv where she would have to mend her own shoes and go house to house singing Christmas carols to earn small change.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Harry looked around, worried, thinking of dementors, then realized that the carols had finished, that the chatter and flurry of churchgoers were fading away as they made their way back into the square.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
“For he’s a jolly good patient, for he’s a jolly good patient, for he’s a jolly good patient, which no one can deny!” the staff caroled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Crystal’s uncle, a professional Santa, was at home with the sniffles, but the group still caroled before perplexed motorists.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2016
For want of glitzy decorations, flowers adorn communal areas and hymns are caroled with great gusto.
From Time ● Dec. 25, 2013
The Old People's Singing Group of Xinghur Park caroled their joy at Hong Kong's return: "100 years is a long time/But now Hong Kong is coming home."
From Time Magazine Archive
And then, from the tall pines and birches that ringed the pond, a wood thrush caroled.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
He’s made personal appearances at Atlanta Braves games and carolled with the Falcons.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 19, 2019
After a prima donna had carolled the National Anthem, John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, gave the "Caseys" the freedom of the City in one of his famed welcome-speeches.
From Time Magazine Archive
A wren on a tree-stump carolled clear, Then the starlings wheeled in a sudden sheer, The rooks came home to the twiggy hive In the elm-tree tops which the winds do drive.
From Reynard the Fox by John Masefield
"A dance," carolled Alma, when the door had slammed again behind the emissary of the Porterbridge heiress.
From Nancy of Paradise Cottage by Shirley Watkins
“How deliciously fresh it is now,” she almost carolled.
From The Later Life by Louis Couperus
At the previous luncheon, Rice had pledged to send GEO employees Christmas caroling across town; he even gave Mayor LaDawn Edwards $300.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2025
Instead of caroling and ringing church bells, the most prominent sounds on Christmastide were now town criers calling: "No Christmas! No Christmas!"
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
Not everyone at the caroling event came for the milk, though: Michael O’Gara, 70, a member of the Hudson Community Choir, lamented that he couldn’t tolerate it as well as he used to.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
Christmas means different traditions for those who celebrate, whether it's white elephant gifts, seeing holiday lights, volunteering, caroling with good company or partaking in various foods.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022
We walked around the outside of the cell house caroling, so I didn’t actually see Capone this time, but I’m almost sure I heard him call out, ‘Sweet as a songbird.’
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
No carolling, no parties and even Germany's much loved glühwein stalls will close, as drinking outdoors is banned.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2020
The Rockettes notwithstanding, you’d be hard pressed to find a more authentically New York City holiday tradition than this annual boom-box carolling event, devised and led by the composer Phil Kline.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019
Several years ago, I was at a Christmas party at home in the South when the host, a local gospel singer, was asked to sing before any official carolling got under way.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 27, 2016
Which poet is carolling a “Song on May Morning”?
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2012
“I have heard her carolling like a bird.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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