PEDESTAL in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for PEDESTAL, such as:
1. This directed my closer attention to the pedestal.
2. He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.
3. At the very top of the steps was a bust of Shakespeare on a pedestal.
4. The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.
5. As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open.
2. He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.
3. At the very top of the steps was a bust of Shakespeare on a pedestal.
4. The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.
5. As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open.
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Meanings and Examples of PEDESTAL
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pedestal
n. a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority)
n. a support or foundation
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1 He paused, eminent, dominant, glaring from his pedestal.
2 On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
3 It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes's so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
Context Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4 All was quiet with him, save that a long inscription had appeared that morning upon the pedestal of the sundial.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Context Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
5 The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris.
6 Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter.
7 Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon.
8 I found a groove ripped in it, about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where, on arrival, I had struggled with the overturned machine.
9 This directed my closer attention to the pedestal.
10 It took no very great mental effort to infer that my Time Machine was inside that pedestal.
11 They came, and then, pointing to the bronze pedestal, I tried to intimate my wish to open it.
12 Then, again, about the Time Machine: something, I knew not what, had taken it into the hollow pedestal of the White Sphinx.
13 As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open.
14 That gives you the exact distance from my little lawn to the pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the Morlocks had carried my machine.
15 Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference.
Example Sentence:
1 Before it could be transported to the United States, a site had to be found for it and a pedestal had to be built.
2 At the very top of the steps was a bust of Shakespeare on a pedestal.