candle
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Down the road at the Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral, a vigil was held, attended by a couple of hundred people lining up to light a candle for Haines.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
There’s a neon-yellow China Airlines collaboration with the North Face and a square black Singapore Airlines pouch that comes with a Lalique candle and a warning: DO NOT USE IN AIRCRAFT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"At the very least, I wanted to come down, lay a candle... to make an appearance," said the 25-year-old, who studies fashion.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
It’s your job to manage both and make sure that you are not burning the candle at both ends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
She folded the letter crisply, slipped it inside an envelope, and sealed it with a drip of wax from a candle.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Chris Eves said: "We've got loads of torches and candles and lots of flasks so we should be OK."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Get drinks on ice, arrange the soups for serving, light the candles and start the music.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
I have a feeling those birthday candles lit a fire under you.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Marriott chain sells candles and diffusers with “the signature scent of your favorite hotels,” including subsidiary brands Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, Westin, Sheraton and Courtyard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
After the trick-or-treating, we went back to our apartment, and we sat on the floor with candles all around and split up our candy.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
Unlike with most poultry, the eggs cannot be candled to check on the embryo growing inside for the 52 days between laying and hatching.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Early on, she candled eggs for a poultry farm while he played “frisbee on the green.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Sample eggs are then candled to determine whether the agent is properly infecting the embryos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He candled eggs in a grocery store, became a messenger boy for a bank, a cashier's assistant in the local Morrell packing plant, finally got a scholarship to Trinity College.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When it was night, he lighted the candled and said to Zubeideh, 'The dervishes have not brought the ten thousand dinars that they promised me: but indeed they are poor men.'
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
Unclear, though certificates on the walls congratulate her on her mastery of ear candling and reiki.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2015
His wife, when not mothering their five boys and three girls, spent grueling days standing at a local produce house as she examined poultry eggs under a light - what they call candling.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
Sam Cruz, a 12-year IRS employee who works in candling, said he finds something left behind maybe two or three times for every thousand envelopes.
From Washington Post
Women go to the candler for an afternoon--the average candling takes about an hour--of relaxation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If you are in doubt about the quality of any eggs you are candling break a few of them into a dish and examine them.
From Every Step in Canning by Grace Viall Gray
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