noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a Christmas carol (= a Christian song sung at Christmas )
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Children go from door to door singing Christmas carols.
Christmas carol
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
christmas
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Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ?
service
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Already there are plans to put on nativity plays and join local children at a carol service .
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Local schools, for example, might be involved in more than an annual carol service .
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Meanwhile, the choir's busy preparing for the carol service as if nothing had happened.
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We all went to the carol service in Bath Abbey, where I had difficulty restraining my tears.
■ VERB
sing
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A choir of families, wrapped in woolly hats, overcoats and scarves, were singing carols by a crib.
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As the candles burned down, we sang Christmas carols , and then Papa passed out the presents.
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As if she felt her sister's gaze, Susan swung round on the piano-stool and asked her to sing come carols .
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Henrietta forced to sing carols seven weeks early in choral rehearsals.
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Last Christmas we all went to sing carols and we had a party there.
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We concluded by singing the carol O Come all ye Faithful and I gave them a blessing.
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Each day we would assemble in a room under the supervision of a young Lieutenant and sing carols .
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On Christmas Eve a candle-lit procession, led by Matron, came to sing carols .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A choir of families, wrapped in woolly hats, overcoats and scarves, were singing carols by a crib.
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As the candles burned down, we sang Christmas carols, and then Papa passed out the presents.
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It was all hymns and carols.
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The Carol Album is a carol record with a difference.
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The presents are unwrapped, the holiday turkey is hash, and the carols have all been sung.
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Two beggar children, arms and legs as thin as sticks, stood beside a brazier singing a carol .