cherub
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Church and government officials launched an investigation after pictures of a cherub at the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina showed her newly restored face had an uncanny likeness to right-wing leader, Giorgia Meloni.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
She pans down to show double sinks that feature a cherub motif.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
“I needed her to be a falling cherub, because that’s what I saw,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
A cherub statue the Welnicks placed outside as a memorial to a child they lost to miscarriage looked down at the rubble.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022
I'd actually never seen anyone go pale before, but it was as if all the color drained out of Deidre's plump little cherub face.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
Song floats through “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” like hovering cherubim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
In one passage, a prophet called Ezekiel describes a "vision of God being transported on cherubim", with four wings and "feet shaped like the sole of a calf's foot".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2021
She’s attended by a half-dozen crimson seraphim and three royal blue cherubim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2018
“It’s very ornate, very detailed. I believe I recall cherubim on the ceiling.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017
Tea Cake with his shy grin and Motor Boat with his face like a little black cherubim just from a church tower doing amazing things with anybody’s dice.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
I was fascinated entering the Catholic churches and finding Black figures as Jesus and the disciples, but often alongside white cherubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Filled with eccentric decorative touches that mirrored Simmons’ vibrant public persona, the property features everything from staircase cherubs and boldly patterned wallpaper to curved French doors, terraced gardens, and a key-shaped swimming pool.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Apparently it’s this ballroom at Mar-a-Lago, with its $7 million of gold leaf, that Trump wants now to re-create in the East Wing; the gold cherubs have already been brought up from Florida.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
On El Dorado Drive, Raphael’s cherubs peered up at the clouds from a gold framed print perched against a sodden rug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Miguel, Alba, and her brother stopped before a French-style house that looked like a cream cake, with cherubs carved along the friezes.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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