gilded

Example Sentences

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In the lavish memorial erected by his grieving widow, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert is golden, but few world leaders are permanently gilded, and certainly not before their deaths.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

It opens with Ankhmerwer standing in adoration before a gilded Osiris.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The veteran Scot stood down after winning the club's 20th English league crown following two decades of domestic dominance gilded by European success.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

From our reporting and that of other journalist colleagues, the administration wanted him to leave peacefully, go into this kind of gilded exile, as it has been described.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

They jumped in en masse, swimming like birds flying through a sky gilded with fragrant bubbles, while José Arcadio floated on his back on the edge of the festivities, remembering Amaranta with his eyes open.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez