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carol

[kar-uhl] / ˈkær əl /


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People go along to the carol service in nearby Llandaff Cathedral and enjoy their meal afterwards.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 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

Many children find themselves singing at school in the run up to Christmas - at a nativity play or carol concert, often with parents watching proudly on.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

They sat around for a while drinking cider and listening to a Christmas carol program.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Walt Whitman wrote that he heard America singing in the carols of mechanics, carpenters, and shoemakers building our country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

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

The smell of roasted almonds, caramelised apples, chocolate-coated fruit, mulled wine and grilled sausages fills the air, as Christmas carols are performed live on a stage and children enjoy a small, sparkling Ferris wheel.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025

“I can just see you and Imogen, standing together. You were the tiniest girls in the ninth grade. You all sang carols, and the Caraway girl had the solo. Do you remember?”

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

“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

"A giant step forward takes place in Boston today!" caroled the newspaper advertisement.

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

So I pursued my interrupted way to the garden where the robins carolled in every young fruit-tree, and the blue shadows wove patterns on the grass.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Green sprigs were in his hat, and other some Stuck in his coat; he bore a wooden flute, And redbreasts hopped and carolled at his foot.

From King Cole by John Masefield

“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

Ashlyn St. Ours, 33, who attended her first caroling last year, called it a “beloved tradition.”

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

The phones ring, one in every room in the house, ding-dong caroling bells.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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 whole thing winds up where it began, with the star, efficiently cured of his miseries, embracing his younger self, and carolling “I’m Still Standing.”

From The New Yorker ● May 31, 2019

How is the Ghost of Christmas Past able to change Scrooge’s mind—to make him feel affection and pity for the carolling urchin?

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 24, 2015

Each year, he packs out concert halls across the UK with repertoire ranging from Bach to John Rutter, Handel's Messiah, carolling choirs like King's College, Cambridge and a sprinkling of pop.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2010

He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë


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