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

And the look of dusk: "The sky glowed like a candled egg."

From Time Magazine Archive

If an egghead is candled, what shows up?

From Time Magazine Archive

When carefully candled they should be worth ten or twelve cents a dozen.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)