laurel
Example Sentences
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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
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
Stepping away into the L.A. mountains, you’ll be greeted with a sound bath from crickets and birds as the smell of pine, sage and bay laurel fills your nostrils.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
A number of the trees cut down by the vandal appeared to be Indian laurel figs.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025
It wasn’t hauling a boat, though; it was hauling a tree—the laurel oak that would be planted in Mike Costello’s name.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
Vocabulary lists containing laurel
"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman
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