pedestal

Example Sentences

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They don’t have any excitement in their own lives, so they put him on the same pedestal as the circus performers in “Freaks” or Gwynplaine in “The Man Who Laughs.”

From Salon

Mr. Lugo’s ceramics will be on purple pedestals, and the booth will also sport a purple carpet.

From New York Times

A box with three glass walls has been put on a pedestal in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.

From Reuters

The protesters — a man and a woman, dressed in black suits — slathered their hands, then crouched down to paint the pedestal on which the ballerina sculpture is displayed.

From Washington Post

One of the earliest charcoals in the show is a single untitled image from 1915 of a lone tree or plant raised on a small pedestal of a hill facing a distant horizon.

From New York Times