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Example sentences for "pedestal"

Lexicographically close words:
peddling; pede; pedem; pederasty; pedes; pedestalled; pedestals; pedestrian; pedestrianism; pedestrians
  1. The whole height of the statue with the pedestal was about fifty feet; by its very disproportion to the size of the temple it was made to appear still larger than it really was.

  2. A little bit later, the party stood upon the wee pedestal of the very summit, in a driving wind, and looked out upon the vast green expanses of Italy and a shoreless ocean of billowy Alps.

  3. Standing on a pedestal is rather tiresome, if it is gratifying, isn't it, sweetheart?

  4. How little the poor man knew of the awful torture of standing upon the pedestal of another, and at the same time holding before one's eyes that looking-glass with all the cross-lights of existence full upon it!

  5. The falling from the pedestal of a friend is nothing to hurling oneself from one's height of self-esteem and that she had done.

  6. On one face of the pedestal are Lincoln's words, "To preserve the jewel of liberty in the framework of freedom.

  7. 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.

  8. All was quiet with him, save that a long inscription had appeared that morning upon the pedestal of the sundial.

  9. An idol on its pedestal can rarely have but two thoughts--that it is an idol, and that it is to be worshipped.

  10. The exhausted woman sank down on the pedestal of the great group, and wiped her eyes.

  11. She had slipped down from the pedestal and now lay, weeping bitterly, at the feet of the silent man, as if she would disarm his anger by this humble posture.

  12. A stone pedestal marks the spot, originally distinguished by a wooden cross, where Lord Audley fell.

  13. One of the rams was removed from Gebel-Barkal by Lepsius, and is now in the Berlin Museum, as well as the pedestal of one of the hawks.

  14. Prisse has shown that these two monuments originally adorned the temple of Soleb, and that they were afterwards transported to Napata by an Ethiopian king, who engraved his name on the pedestal of one of them.

  15. While Latin alone glitters in the inscriptions upon the Golden Gate, Greek also is allowed a place in the legends which celebrate the elevation of the obelisk upon its pedestal in the Hippodrome.

  16. By a strange fate, the pedestal of the column which bore the statue still remains, being now placed for safe keeping within the railing that encloses a narrow strip of ground on the northern side of the Church of S.

  17. The pedestal adorned by the statue of the Empress Eudoxia likewise bore a bilingual inscription.

  18. In one corner, a pedestal of Egyptian marble supported an alabaster vase, on the edge of which were two doves, exquisitely carved, one just raising his head, the other stooping to drink.

  19. The sculptor carved a wooden image, with many hands and feet, and without a head; upon the pedestal of which he inscribed Demos, and secretly reserved it as a parting gift to the Athenian people.

  20. In the centre of the square is a small plain pillar, based on a pedestal of stone.

  21. Two golden lamps burned perfumes upon the same pedestal which supported those two charming figures.

  22. The pedestal of the gigantic statue, which, still entire, stood on the left side of the portico, rested upon large flagstones, half hidden with brambles.

  23. One of the stones of the pedestal of the statue turns upon itself; the stairs are large; it will do.

  24. And he began to forget that he stood by a lady who sat upon a pedestal of gold-and-white china, with the year 1746 cut on it, and the Meissen mark.

  25. August did not move; he lay with his face downward on the golden and rainbow-hued pedestal of the household treasure, which henceforth was to be cold for evermore, an exiled thing in a foreign city in a far-off land.

  26. The sphinx-like rock stood upon a pedestal also of rock in several strata.

  27. Those jars of a typical shape must have rested on a pedestal of wood, as they ended in a point at the bottom, which prevented their standing up on a flat surface.

  28. Between the altar and the Tabernacle stood the laver; this was a large vessel of brass standing upon a pedestal and containing water for the ceremonial cleansing of the hands and feet of the priests.

  29. It is interesting to note that the laver and its supporting pedestal were made by special contribution of the women, who gave their brazen mirrors for this purpose.

  30. They are set on the pedestal course, or first granite course, extending twenty-eight inches above ground.

  31. And, beyond all question, they thus witnessed the erection of a bronze statue, which, three centuries since, was placed on the pedestal that it still occupies.

  32. They made their way through the throng of the market place, and approached close to the iron railing that protected the pedestal of the statue.

  33. I'll take a teaspoonful with you," said the captain, nimbly dismounting from the pedestal of his respectability, and sipping his brandy with the highest relish.

  34. The firm pedestal of his philosophy sank under him; the prejudices of society recovered their hold on his mind.

  35. In the early summer, when the aeroplane was dug out of the Hangar, that loaf appeared once more, and almost the last thing we saw when leaving the Hut, nearly two years after, was this petrifaction on an icy pedestal near the Boat Harbour.

  36. On a pedestal level with the upheld battery, reached by a spiral stairway, stood the grand sorcerer Charka, robed in tissues of white silk and golden embroidery.

  37. The cast once perfected, and afterward draped, was reproduced in solid gold and placed with appropriate ceremonies on a pedestal on the throne itself.

  38. It is, as Mr. Gosse puts it, by a sustained effort of bluff on the part of these elect that English poetry is kept upon its high pedestal of honor.

  39. But your true votary is for ever taking his god off the pedestal of the true artist to set him on the tub of the hot-gospeller; even so genuine a specimen of impressionist work as Hedda Gabler being claimed by him for a sermon.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedestal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    balustrade; banister; base; colonnade; column; dado; die; exalt; pedestal; pedicel; pier; pilaster; pile; pillar; plinth; pole; post; shaft; stalk; stanchion; stand; standard; stem; trunk; upright