mantel

Example Sentences

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It’s for the mantel, for our boys,’” Song revealed.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Last year, the Montclair, N.J.-based creative director rejoiced when she agreed to let him arrange a Lego winter village on their mantel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Phil to take the mantel of the storied New York Philharmonic, his Mahler is neither overly exuberant nor constrained by grief and Berliner decorum.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

He took up the mantel as leader of Fianna Fáil in 2011 and was elected taoiseach in 2020 as part of the three-party coalition agreement.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Violet had the nerve to put it on the fireplace mantel in her own parlor and both she and Joe looked at it in bewilderment.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison