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

The Berlin T-Shirt shows a male figure wearing a laurel wreath.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 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

The goddess Nike twirled a laurel wreath on her finger.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Despite the World Cup success, Shaffelburg isn’t resting on those laurels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

However, the New Zealander, who is yet to taste defeat since taking up the role in late 2023, is not one to rest on his laurels.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

It must also resist the temptation to rest on its laurels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Messrs. Pinkerton & Co. deserve great credit...and have won additional laurels by the success which has crowned their efforts.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

Other laureled films like Brazil’s “Bacurau” and France’s lesbian love story “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” deserve consideration, too.

From New York Times ● May 27, 2019

The production, a laureled British import, viscerally reinvented a seldom revived 20th century tragedy for our time.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2018

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

The choir had ceased to sing; the uproar of our laurelled equipage alarmed the graves no more.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp

Garlands rustled on their heads And they swung their laurelled staves, Bending back in reckless ways, Full of joyous insolence.

From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine

He received the laurelled despatches from the Euphrates, the Danube, and the Rhine; he had to watch the distribution of military grades and commands.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill

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