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

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

A number of the trees cut down by the vandal appeared to be Indian laurel figs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He is a player who works for the team, accepts tactical instructions and never rests on his laurels.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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

As a teen, he would rent movies from his local Blockbuster solely based on them having the Cannes laurels on the cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Grinning skeletons in Greek armor crowded around me, draping me with silk robes, wreathing my head with laurels that smoked with Chimera poison, burning into my scalp.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

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

Ms. Dench had played this role before, for Mr. Hall, as a throaty 20-something on the way to her extensively laureled career.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2010

Did poets seek celestial flame, The hero die to gain a laureled brow, And women suffer, then as now?

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

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

Her feet are planted on the clouds, but her laurelled head and outstretched wings are high in the Empyrean, and round her maiden throat is a circlet enamelled with the unageing stars.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

Let the deeds of the dead be laurelled, the brave of the elder years,

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

Having married the wealthy heiress of the Zuñigas, he was now living in laurelled ease at Plasencia, in that fine palace of Mirabel, which is still one of the chief ornaments of the beautiful city.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

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