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
Upstairs in the living room, she repainted window frames, switched out a wall sconce, and added a projector screen.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024
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
A majority of emissions come from just 100 or so corporations, activists argue, a concentration of industrial production that, once decarbonized, could slash the footprint beneath every wall sconce and sandwich.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022
Beaten silver mirrors backed every wall sconce, so the torches burned twice as bright; the walls were paneled in richly carved wood, and sweet-smelling rushes covered the floors.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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