sconce
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He flings his lunch against the wall, shattering a piece of Nancy Reagan’s china and leaving a trail of ketchup and hamburger grease on the wallpaper and faux gilt sconce recently procured from Home Depot.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025
They installed the Vendome Visual Comfort double sconce from Circa Lighting in hand-rubbed antique brass above the TV screen, and, Meg Hoburg says, this was “the little detail that elevated the whole thing.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2022
Stenciled onto the adjacent wall next to an incongruously glowing sconce is eternity’s conundrum: “Heaven for weather, hell for company.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022
New multidirectional horizontal or vertical mounting wall sconce lights can brighten up any bathroom — in more ways than one!
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022
The African king halted beside her, thinking she was unwell, and indeed the light of the flaring sconce above her did throw ghastly shadows over her face.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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