mantel

Example Sentences

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It’s for the mantel, for our boys,’” Song revealed.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Last year, the Montclair, N.J.-based creative director rejoiced when she agreed to let him arrange a Lego winter village on their mantel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Picture frames atop the family’s mantel at the home of William Harris, 63, which burned in the Eaton Fire in Altadena.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

He took up the mantel as leader of Fianna Fáil in 2011 and was elected taoiseach in 2020 as part of the three-party coalition agreement.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

I heard the refrigerator hum, a poink poink from the shower dripping, the ticking that comes from the old clock on the mantel whose time is always wrong unless I remember to wind it.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin