Example Sentences
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Walt Whitman wrote that he heard America singing in the carols of mechanics, carpenters, and shoemakers building our country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Earlier, the King led the Royals in celebrating the high point of the festive season with a service of Christmas carols and prayers at St Mary Magdalene Church on Charles's private Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
Girl Scouts sing carols as onlookers sip cocoa at the annual lighting ceremony.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
The dazzling display of lights, accompanied by religious and festive imagery and soundtracked by Filipino rap and Christmas carols, is part of the annual Giant Lantern Festival.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
The northern European carols ‘Personent hodie’ and ‘Gaudete’, as well as the tune of ‘Good King Wenceslas’, all have their origins in earlier plainchant melodies.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
