pedestal

Standing on a concrete pedestal, the statue will depict the pontiff with open arms, wearing his long papal robe and a crucifix around his neck.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Is historic male dominance in sports teetering like a marble Adonis on a wobbly pedestal?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"Playing an Open at Birkdale is something that is always going to be very, very special and sit on a pedestal for anybody from Southport," Fleetwood said.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

There’s a tendency to put mothers on a pedestal and we judge them harshly over every decision they make.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

She steps down from the pedestal and strides over, holding the enclosed vial casually.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Some artificial-intelligence stocks that got knocked off their pedestals, in part due to a bruising July selloff, now represent attractive opportunities for investors, according to BofA analysts.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

"Nothing is left but the pedestals of the memorials and a few of the stones from them," he wrote online.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025

“They are treated as gods and goddesses and put on pedestals for searching for and ‘representing’ truth and knowledge and recognizing and being proud of who they are and where they come from.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Specifically, Parisi looked at certain pedestals and determined the amount of heating and fueling required to achieve it given a particular plasma shape.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Here, too, were boys of gold on pedestals holding aloft bright torches of pitch pine to light the great rooms, and the night-time feasting.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws.

From Time Magazine Archive

He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to Back Bay he is an idol, firmly pedestaled.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

And then I knew—some intuition said—   That tombs were not and men had cleared their shelves Of urns; and the electro-plated dead   Stood pedestaled as statues of themselves.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce

So he drove them out, and stood alone confronting "Statuesque Balaustion pedestalled On much disapprobation and mistake."

From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield

As we drove up to the porticoed front door, I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sundial with which we had such strange associations.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It rises full over the desert; and a vast horizon comes into relief, broken by a huge shape which soon reveals itself in the spreading radiance as a Sphinx pedestalled on the sands.

From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw

Rather turn Whither, upon the upland, pedestalled Into the broad day-splendour, whom discern These eyes but thee, supreme one, rightly called Moon-maid in heaven above and, here below, Earth's huntress-queen?

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

As we drove up to the porticoed front door I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sun-dial with which we had such strange associations.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle