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She was also given police protection at a carol service where she was the special guest.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

A Ukrainian choir sang a carol, with many of the group's singers in the UK because of the war.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

There was also a 14th-Century carol, and prayers sung in Latin, which rose up in the high ceilings of the medieval Abbey.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

The surge in carol composition around this time, notably in northern Europe, was partly inspired by an earlier Italian tradition of tuneful sacred songs welcoming the Christ-child’s nativity.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Walt Whitman wrote that he heard America singing in the carols of mechanics, carpenters, and shoemakers building our country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

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

The 1,600 guests will hear a mix of carols, music and readings from actors such as Kate Winslet and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

They walked to the church, past the great houses that rested in the shadow of the Lawn, singing fragments of Christmas carols in the atonal Meecham voices, and laughing at every joke anyone made.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“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

"A giant step forward takes place in Boston today!" caroled the newspaper advertisement.

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

The roses were blowing, like whales in the sea Where the apple-bloom icebergs plunged fearless and free, And the larks carolled madly their high jubilee In the ether.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various

"He'd better remain, for I don't think he'll go," gaily carolled the Chief Justice, with a reminiscence of a burlesque written at a time when burlesques were comic.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various

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

Ashlyn St. Ours, 33, who attended her first caroling last year, called it a “beloved tradition.”

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

She sat down alone, and eventually the collective caroling stopped.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

No carolling, no parties and even Germany's much loved glühwein stalls will close, as drinking outdoors is banned.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2020

In another part of that film—inspired by Holofcener’s crying jag at the mental hospital where she went carolling with her mother—Keener’s character looks into volunteering at a program for kids with Down syndrome.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

Several years ago, I was at a Christmas party at home in the South when the host, a local gospel singer, was asked to sing before any official carolling got under way.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 27, 2016

Which poet is carolling a “Song on May Morning”?

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2012

“I have heard her carolling like a bird.”

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya