plinth

Example Sentences

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Later that year, in October, an Extinction Rebellion activist was ordered to pay more than £1,500 for defacing the statue by painting "racist" on its plinth during a climate protest.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

He was also commissioned to make the fourth plinth installation, Alison Lapper Pregnant, in Trafalgar Square in 2004.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

But the thing on the left is just a geometric slab of no discernible purpose, a plinth with no identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

In 2014, a man was arrested after spending 48 hours on the statue plinth as part of Occupy Democracy protests in Westminster, but was subsequently acquitted of all charges.

From BBC • May 6, 2025

Some of her last words are carved on the statue’s plinth.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein