pedestal

"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

Don Colossus stands proud atop a stone pedestal, keeping vigil over a small commemorative plaque.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

“Drake was very highly regarded before then. For some people, that knocked him off the pedestal a bit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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

They simply removed the crabs from the top of the pedestal.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

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

The lower level of the Winners Gallery has cars on pedestals that are banked 9 degrees, 12 minutes—the same as the four banked turns of the racetrack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Further investigation by the SIT has revealed pilferage also from the pedestals and door frames and the court says that approximately 4.54kg gold has gone missing since 2019.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

The monuments are astonishing to see, if only because one typically encounters them as an outdoor drive-by, raised high on tall pedestals that lift them 10, 30, even 50 feet in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

A row of pedestals runs down the middle, leading to a tall red door in the middle of the back wall.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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

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

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

There was Jane, a figurine in a plastic state and altogether disgraceful;—she came up out of the waters and stood before them with feet of clay, indeed; pedestaled upon the curbstone.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Booth Tarkington

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph?

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

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

Tuscarora County was put through its paces for a gaping world; Clinton's Ditch—"well-spring of New York's commercial supremacy, gentlemen"—shown in rosiest apotheosis; the Empire State pedestalled imperially among the nations.

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

It was Cromwell's mood, as one who, living under the eye of God, scorned the vapourings of pedestalled mortals.

From The Path of the King by John Buchan

And thou shalt see her standing straight and pale, High pedestalled on some rook-haunted tower: She has two earrings, silver and vermeil, And eyes like stars that shine in sunset hour.

From Forty-Two Poems by James Elroy Flecker