cherub
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Mr Piovesana also had a cartoon-style tattoo of a man, a car and a cherub on his arm, and a Vespa motorbike on his stomach, they added.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
They led by 11 after the first quarter, 17 at halftime, 33 after three, and they just kept piling it on, so much that Jack Nicholson spent the game looking like a gleeful cherub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
“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
He looked like a cherub who’d turned middle-aged in a trailer park.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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Song floats through “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” like hovering cherubim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
There are a few visual effects, to indicate hazy memories, and a through line built around a white piano decorated with cherubim, which ends the film on a happy note.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
“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
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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
My favorite, predictably, was the Tunnel of Love, where couples can pose on a vintage pink Cadillac under a roof painted with cherubs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024
And the carvings...Gregor had seen cherubs and gargoyles on buildings before, but the walls of Regalia crawled with life.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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