laurel
Example Sentences
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The Berlin T-Shirt shows a male figure wearing a laurel wreath.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
Their small faces are riveted as he passes around a leaf from a California bay laurel tree.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
A number of the trees cut down by the vandal appeared to be Indian laurel figs.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025
In July 2022 O'Neill laid a laurel wreath at the Belfast Cenotaph to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024
The goddess raised the laurel wreath in one hand and her spear in the other.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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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