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

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Parton asked them to withdraw the bill, saying that “given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Black obsidian walls reflected the dim silver glow leaking out of a closed clamshell-like container atop a pedestal.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

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

Parisi, together with a team of scientists, explored the limits of pedestals and investigated how much pressure could be applied to plasma inside a fusion reactor before instabilities appeared.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

Shelves and pedestals are everywhere, displaying glass jars inside which are power-ups of all kinds—scarlet gems and white marbles, rainbow-hued balls of fuzz and blue-striped cubes, black-and-white-checkered spheres, and clear, soap-like bubbles.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

The first warm impulses of patriotic and inflammable masses had pedestaled him as a demigod.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon

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

Now, in a trice, he was not only admitted to comradeship, but patently valued as something rare and sacred to be acclaimed and pedestalled.

From Penrod by Booth Tarkington

A body less firmly pedestalled upon powerful legs and scoop-shovel feet would have gone down.

From The Devil's Asteroid by Manly Wade Wellman

She stands pedestalled on the lotus of our heart.

From Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches by Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose

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