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carol

[kar-uhl] / ˈkær əl /


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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

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

There was also a 14th-Century carol, and prayers sung in Latin, which rose up in the high ceilings of the medieval Abbey.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

The school's carol service will go ahead, while pupils will come together for their Christmas dinner later this week with the support of local businesses.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

Brother Luke was teaching him to sing a carol, because it was near to the Feast of Christmas.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

Visitors won’t experience any flashing lights, dancing elves or blaring carols.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Maybe you sing carols and decorate a Christmas tree in the lobby.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

“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 tunes, however, especially More and More, Californ-i-ay, and the title song which is caroled in an early American bathhouse, are solid enough Kern, if a touch too operatic for the winter's juke boxes.

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

Then stretching himself on his toes, as if delighted with the gift of wings, he carolled one of his sweetest songs, and flew away into a neighbouring grove.

From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Feathered songsters carolled in the woods behind us, and before us the heath-lark's love-strains swelled, answering each other from the juniper-bushes.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

After this she "changed her hand," and the sparkling music of Comus seemed to make the air glad, as she carolled through its delicious melodies.

From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

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

On Dec. 16, the Churchtown Dairy in Claverack, New York, once again hosted a Yuletide tradition: caroling to the herd of 28 cattle that call the cathedral-like barn their winter home.

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

I could hear that she was happy and sad, even with my sisters yelping and Johnny Mathis caroling.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

In another part of that film—inspired by Holofcener’s crying jag at the mental hospital where she went carolling with her mother—Keener’s character looks into volunteering at a program for kids with Down syndrome.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

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

“I have heard her carolling like a bird.”

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya


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