mantle

Example Sentences

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A full generation of White House advisers decided that image was static and inert, that a president looks more dynamic if he’s standing, with long halls or mantles behind him.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her brown face, green mantle and forgiving gaze is a mainstay of Southern California: In front yards.

From Los Angeles Times

Knowing that handing off the mantle to any of these soft-bellied siblings meant dooming his life’s work, Roy let slip one of the most devastating parental assessments ever captured on television.

From Salon

A few have tried to pick up the “no surprise” mantle, and U.K. research firm Variant Perception has been doing that for at least a second year.

From MarketWatch

According to this idea, the planet was capped by a stiff, unmoving outer shell while heat-driven convection took place deeper in the mantle.

From Science Daily