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Unlike the soft, pliable versions of the Christ child in his early Madonnas, this is a monumental, muscular putto, using his strength to hold that garland aloft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

“If you had a tree or some garland with 1,000 lights, it might have 800. Things will just get watered down, and so you will be paying the same, if not more, for less.”

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026

Or why spend $30 on a holiday garland when you could make something similar out of shopping-bag cardboard?

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2025

However, if they then garland them, I think the council needs to explain to them it's not their own and it's still the council's property and can't be used as a memorial with anything extra.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024

As I was about to leave, Chandra said, “If something happens, see that Hari has a garland of marigolds from me.”

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

For the last year, “Gracias Gustavo” garlands have adorned the city, thanking Dudamel for doing just that during his 17 seasons heading the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

For the last decade, 55-year-old Ponni has sat on a roadside in Bengaluru, the city known as India's Silicon Valley, making flower garlands.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

And the extras that people load up on when they are feeling flush, such as wreaths and garlands and baskets, haven’t been selling well at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Avery Colvert, who founded Altadena Girls in January as a 14-year-old, hung garlands and decorations around the 12,000-square-foot complex, beaming that what she’d built was at last open to the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Outside lay a heap of garlands, roses, lilies, chrysanthemums; evidently others had been before me.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

The Hangar, where all five candidates would speak, was garlanded with flags.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2024

They had been released in 2022, when they were garlanded with flowers by their families and a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Samnite bronze head, a rare Waldesian Evangelical community and an ancient annual pageant with pagan roots that venerates a circular cane garlanded in wild cyclamen flowers.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

They have the pulpy verve of Harlem’s crime fiction godfather, Chester Himes, combined with the literary heft of Whitehead’s more garlanded novels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

There will be a big wedding where Kareem rides in on a white horse and I will be garlanded in gold and roses and jasmine.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Manjhiyain, who died last month, was just 15 when she was ostracised by her tribe - the Santhals - for garlanding India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru 63 years ago.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2023

And in 105- degree heat, hundreds of well-wishers leaned out from balconies, snapped photos and pushed forward to greet him, garlanding him with marigolds, pelting him with flower petals and offering sweets.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2015

In between, the bridges to Brooklyn, garlanding the river with lights like diamond necklaces.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2013

Photograph: Allstar/Universal Pictures; David James; Allstar After indulging Europe by garlanding The Artist last year and The King's Speech in 2011, the Oscars seem set to come home.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013

On another wall was a framed photograph of Comrade Pillai garlanding Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy