sconce
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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
The tiny space can be closed off from the rest of the room with a striped curtain, and a red 1960s sconce serves as a reading light.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
He pulled a torch down from a wall sconce and waved it till it blazed up bright and hot.
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
Clerks are sconced a pint for 'very inordinately' knocking 'at the door during dinner ...' for 'confabulating' in the court late at night, and refusing to go to their chambers when ordered....
From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait
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
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
Have you secured The all-important Crossways?—safely sconced Yourself at Quatre-Bras?
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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
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