gilded

Example Sentences

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In the lavish memorial erected by his grieving widow, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert is golden, but few world leaders are permanently gilded, and certainly not before their deaths.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

The first time Donald Trump appears in the film, he is a voice coming through Melania’s iPhone as she sits at a gilded desk in their Fifth Avenue penthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

Gu, who specialises in carving the heads of Buddha sculptures, proudly showed off the subtle expressions on the faces of a row of gilded figures in her storeroom.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

From our reporting and that of other journalist colleagues, the administration wanted him to leave peacefully, go into this kind of gilded exile, as it has been described.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

Books crowded the table, their cracked spines gilded with Hebrew.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros