cherub
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"We have also now found the original sleeping cherub and a couple of other items stolen from James's resting place."
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
She pans down to show double sinks that feature a cherub motif.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
A cherub statue the Welnicks placed outside as a memorial to a child they lost to miscarriage looked down at the rubble.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022
Instead, they said, “the photograph evokes themes of greed, innocence and the motif of the cherub in Western art.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022
In the center of Baby Kochamma’s garden, surrounded by beds of cannae and phlox, a marble cherub peed an endless silver arc into a shallow pool in which a single blue lotus bloomed.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Song floats through “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” like hovering cherubim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
There is no end of hand-wringing over careerists who forgo the delights of cherubim in favor of corporate paychecks, but careful interrogations of parenthood are few and far between.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
In one passage, a prophet called Ezekiel describes a "vision of God being transported on cherubim", with four wings and "feet shaped like the sole of a calf's foot".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2021
She’s attended by a half-dozen crimson seraphim and three royal blue cherubim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2018
Tea Cake with his shy grin and Motor Boat with his face like a little black cherubim just from a church tower doing amazing things with anybody’s dice.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
I was fascinated entering the Catholic churches and finding Black figures as Jesus and the disciples, but often alongside white cherubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
“Elements such as the staircase cherubs, vibrant patterned wallpaper, curved French patio doors, and the deeply personal, expressive touches throughout make the home both memorable and visually striking.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Apparently it’s this ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, with its $7 million of gold leaf, that Trump wants now to re-create in the East Wing; the gold cherubs have already been brought up from Florida.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
On El Dorado Drive, Raphael’s cherubs peered up at the clouds from a gold framed print perched against a sodden rug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
The cherubs looked down on us, smiling mysteriously, and I wondered how many people they had seen come in and out of this room.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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