Example Sentences

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Jerry Brewer wrote in his column, “Coaches are coaches. Pedestals not required ,” of Urban Meyer, the head coach at Ohio State University.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2018

Pedestals, keeping women safe from men’s desires, existed in all these times and places.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2017

Pedestals are designed so as not to be mistaken for cocktail tables, because guests sometimes abandon empty beer glasses next to sculptural pieces.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2017

And they climbed back on their Pedestals, resuming their supercilious expression.

From The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

Pedestals of the purest Ionic Gothic were ingeniously intermixed with Palladian pediments; and the surging spire exquisitely harmonised with the horizontal architecture of the ancients.

From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield