candle
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Moments after he blows out the candle on his cake, John’s father places a rifle in his hands.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Amazon listed unlicensed products including $17 Taylor Swift T-shirts, $30 BTS trinket collections, $13 Mariah Carey bracelets and a $30 Lady Gaga candle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
A lit candle flickered among the flowers, where a teddy bear was also perched.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
On the corner of another table, the flame from a candle flickers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Five, because before he’d discovered this use for moss, he’d used hot candle wax, which had ruined his hearing for a full month.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Fans gathered at the park in recent days to pay tribute to Parton, dropping off flowers, candles and balloons.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
As ever sells jams, teas, candles and other products "crafted to elevate your everyday and inspire moments of joy", and there is no indication that it will end when she moves across the Atlantic.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Items subject to the levies include wine, hockey sticks, cement, natural honey, essential oils and candles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Flowers and candles were left outside the Brinell school in Fagersta where Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson went on Saturday morning to honour the dead student and three wounded victims.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Tyger, Tyger, burning bright,” Cassiopeia recited, for in addition to that attractively striped coat, the cat had gleaming amber eyes that burned bright as candles.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Unlike with most poultry, the eggs cannot be candled to check on the embryo growing inside for the 52 days between laying and hatching.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Early on, she candled eggs for a poultry farm while he played “frisbee on the green.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Many so-so lines are salvaged by the neat professional finesse of Grant, Day and Meadows, with Gig Young contributing an amusing portrayal of a financial adviser who is having his head candled.
From Time Magazine Archive
The modern egghead has his head candled by the light of psychoanalysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grilles, panels, mirror-frames all glimmered in green and gold, and a row of lustres, each multitudinously candled, hung from the lofty ceiling.
From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
Unclear, though certificates on the walls congratulate her on her mastery of ear candling and reiki.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2015
His wife, when not mothering their five boys and three girls, spent grueling days standing at a local produce house as she examined poultry eggs under a light - what they call candling.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
Sam Cruz, a 12-year IRS employee who works in candling, said he finds something left behind maybe two or three times for every thousand envelopes.
From Washington Post
Aside from an earful of candle wax, candling could lead to infection, burns to the ear canal or eardrum--or burning hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the housewife does not wish to resort to candling, she may determine the condition of an egg by breaking it into a saucer and examining it carefully.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
