laurel

The soldiers are shadowed by an allegorical figure carrying poppies, symbolizing sleep—an analog, in the art of the time, for death—and a laurel branch symbolizing peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

At the center, resting on a plinth in front of a shallow niche and beneath a graceful valance of laurel, is French’s striking bronze portrait bust of Hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Michelle O'Neill attended the event and laid a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall in her role as first minister for the second year in a row.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025

Stepping away into the L.A. mountains, you’ll be greeted with a sound bath from crickets and birds as the smell of pine, sage and bay laurel fills your nostrils.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

One could scarcely see past all the crowns, roses, shamrocks, halos, piles of gold, angel wings, laurel leaves, roaring lions—the list went on and on.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

But that should not mean resting on our laurels or on the golf cart if a friend or acquaintance reaches out for help.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

As a teen, he would rent movies from his local Blockbuster solely based on them having the Cannes laurels on the cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

"We're not sitting on our laurels, but we're not intimidated by that at all," he says of displays such as the No Kings protest.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

Through a proprietary mixture of light nostalgia baiting and ever-present curiosity, Gellar has achieved a rare type of icon status — a superstar who owns her legacy, but isn’t willing to rest on her laurels.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

Clarisse was wearing the gold laurels, but she didn’t even brag about winning them, which wasn’t like her.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

We are in the midst of a great year for cinema, Glenn, and “The Zone of Interest,” already widely acclaimed and laureled at Cannes, sits near the top of the list for me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

The more poignant question may be: When does the writing of a laureled outsider drown out the literary voices of the people being discussed?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

That’s partly because, at 59, Mr. Washington, the much laureled movie star, is about a quarter of a century older than the character he is playing, at least as written.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2014

As much as Sarris yearned to canonize Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, he also needed to cauterize the work of directors laureled by front-line movie reviewers.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

It was the greatest and most beneficial discovery of the nineteenth century, they said, and Professor Roentgen's thoughtful brow was laureled with a fame that made him greater than a king.

From Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

Walt Disney himself, laurelled by the White House as the “Creator of an American Folklore,” claimed the mantle of innocence, describing Mickey as “Youth, the Great Unlicked and Uncontaminated.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

The most laurelled of black composers, Ellington was honored on his 70th birthday with a dinner and jam session at the White House.

From Time ● Oct. 24, 2011

Five years ago and we might have feared them; Now, when they lift the laurelled brow, There shall naught go up from our hosts assembled But a laugh like thunder.

From Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In my copy of Johnson's Lives Congreve's wig is the tallest, and put on with the jauntiest air of all the laurelled worthies.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

Her feet are planted on the clouds, but her laurelled head and outstretched wings are high in the Empyrean, and round her maiden throat is a circlet enamelled with the unageing stars.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin

Smith's continuous stream of productivity, her topical range, the accolades laureling her books, her prodigious artistic abilities, should be evidence enough to assuage her fears about credibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2018