mantelpiece

Example Sentences

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"I don't want it to be a doorstop or in the bottom drawer, I want it to be on the mantelpiece."

From BBC

Others decorate mantelpieces, bookshelves and walls with their plastic builds, often to spouses’ chagrin.

From The Wall Street Journal

She's a Hollywood A-lister, with a mantelpiece groaning under the weight of awards.

From BBC

Luckily for him, his mantelpiece is looking pretty full after his 2021 release, It Takes Two, snagged a clutch of the games industry's biggest awards.

From BBC

He said, “Tell him that when the IRS comes to take your house, they leave those awards on the mantelpiece.”

From Los Angeles Times