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[sley] / sleɪ /


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But a few years ago it posted a digitally-altered image on its Facebook page depicting Santa’s sleigh taking off from its deck.

From Salon Dec. 24, 2025

Low trading volumes can also bring volatility, as relatively little selling may spark outsize moves, so investors should be ready for bumps on any sleigh ride to a year-end rally.

From Barron's Dec. 24, 2025

Trying to squeeze in cookie baking, holiday parties, Christmas movies and picturesque sleigh rides?

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2025

If he doesn’t change his policy soon, don’t be surprised if Santa’s sleigh is a bit lighter in the coming years.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 7, 2025

He also wrote a poem about bells, bells, and more bells, ringing and clanging and jangling away, from tinkling sleigh bells like those of a troika, to the deep, basso tolling of funeral bells.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Mr Cook asked motorists to "exercise extreme caution and vigilance" on the roads, "especially around Santa sleighs as there are often families and children crossing the roads nearby".

From BBC Dec. 22, 2023

Next we anchor the larger elements to the tree: a jolly Santa, fur-trimmed sleighs of varying sizes and showers of galvanized bells.

From Seattle Times Dec. 6, 2022

In her article, Hamill researched the origins of "Jingle Bells," its composer, James L. Pierpont, and other songs about sleighs that appeared during the mid-1800s.

From Fox News Jan. 2, 2022

We stared in somewhat stupefied awe at toy trains chugging around sugar-snow-dusted mini-Swiss Alps under flying Santa sleighs and traded longings.

From New York Times Nov. 25, 2020

Soulzeren and Ozwin for reaching it in their silk sleighs.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor



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