sconce

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

The big man snatched a torch down from a wall sconce to lead the way.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Mohammed Hatta was comfortably en sconced with him in Batavia as his vice president.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those round this way Are his left wing with Ney, that face the north Between Paunsdorf and Gohlis.—Thus, you see They are skilfully sconced within the villages, With cannon ranged in front.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

In winter, warmed by the ruddy blaze of a generous fire, and well sconced, and filled with pleasant company seated about a well-spread board, the room might have passed muster and even conduced to ease.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman

In the pamphlet it is "sconced"; that very common old word for fined or mulcted.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith

If "the pearl" broke and began to slide, the drinker was "sconced."

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

The penalty of "sconcing," still inflicted at Oxford, for offences against undergraduate etiquette, finds a place in the Parisian statutes among serious punishments.

From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait