carol
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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
People go along to the carol service in nearby Llandaff Cathedral and enjoy their meal afterwards.
From BBC ● 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
The King, who seemed in festive form, joked with carol singers that they must be "moonlighting from the Royal Opera House" and teased reporters that they were not getting to test the drinks on display.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Billy cried very little, though he often saw things worth crying about, and in that respect, at least, he resembled the Christ of the carol: The cattle are lowing, The Baby awakes.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
Walk through any mall at this time of year and you’re bound to hear the typical sounds of the season: Christmas carols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Traditional Christmas carols will be sung in the specially decorated Abbey, with readings and music from performers including Hannah Waddingham and Kate Winslet.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
Instead of the radio merengues, Gladys now sang an endless repertoire of Christmas carols: Glo-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohh- Oh-oh-oh-oh-ohh- Ria!
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
“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
Nonetheless, Lady Bird caroled a hopeful counterpoint as she zipped through the farms and villages of the American heartland.
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
Her voice carolled in song as she sped upstairs.
From Second String by Anthony Hope
And as I passed thro' Pateley Brigg, A woman carolled blithely, And up and down the cobbled streets The bairnies skipped so lithely.
From The Dales of Arcady by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
It was a beautiful morning in August: the larks carolled in the air, and the robins shrilled in the brakes.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
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
This year, preregistration for the two caroling events filled up within hours of going online.
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
There would be singing and caroling in the Hall and Robin remembered his father’s letter and hoped that Christmas would bring his father and mother to the castle.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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 whole thing winds up where it began, with the star, efficiently cured of his miseries, embracing his younger self, and carolling “I’m Still Standing.”
From The New Yorker ● May 31, 2019
Marjorie also waltzes through the Winfields’ kitchen, during the preparation of Thanksgiving dinner, carolling “Ain’t We Got Fun?”
From The New Yorker ● May 14, 2019
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
He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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