Example Sentences
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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
The modern egghead has his head candled by the light of psychoanalysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As she squinted into the light, a shaft of Caribbean sun candled her deep-blue eyes.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
