laurel

The soldiers are shadowed by an allegorical figure carrying poppies, symbolizing sleep—an analog, in the art of the time, for death—and a laurel branch symbolizing peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

At the center, resting on a plinth in front of a shallow niche and beneath a graceful valance of laurel, is French’s striking bronze portrait bust of Hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The Berlin T-Shirt shows a male figure wearing a laurel wreath.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026

Their small faces are riveted as he passes around a leaf from a California bay laurel tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

Glinting on the boat’s prow was a laurel wreath design with the letters SPQR.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

But that should not mean resting on our laurels or on the golf cart if a friend or acquaintance reaches out for help.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

Despite having a personally impressive season, Doku is reluctant to rest on his laurels and Guardiola's comments read like a challenge aimed to keep the winger on that path.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

As a teen, he would rent movies from his local Blockbuster solely based on them having the Cannes laurels on the cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Through a proprietary mixture of light nostalgia baiting and ever-present curiosity, Gellar has achieved a rare type of icon status — a superstar who owns her legacy, but isn’t willing to rest on her laurels.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

Messrs. Pinkerton & Co. deserve great credit...and have won additional laurels by the success which has crowned their efforts.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The more poignant question may be: When does the writing of a laureled outsider drown out the literary voices of the people being discussed?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

The production, a laureled British import, viscerally reinvented a seldom revived 20th century tragedy for our time.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2018

He’s a laureled veteran, fast, strong, smart and enormous, 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2016

As much as Sarris yearned to canonize Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, he also needed to cauterize the work of directors laureled by front-line movie reviewers.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2012

Not "ashes to ashes, dust to dust," but blossoms to blossoms, laurels to the laureled.

From Model Speeches for Practise by Grenville Kleiser

Walt Disney himself, laurelled by the White House as the “Creator of an American Folklore,” claimed the mantle of innocence, describing Mickey as “Youth, the Great Unlicked and Uncontaminated.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

The most laurelled of black composers, Ellington was honored on his 70th birthday with a dinner and jam session at the White House.

From Time ● Oct. 24, 2011

Not for him the promise, It shall be thine in danger's hour To guide the helm of Britain's power And midst thy country's laurelled crown To twine a garland all thy own.

From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman

Happier to chase a flying goal, Than to sit counting laurelled gains, To guess the Soul within the soul, Than to be lord of what remains.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various

The horizon was carved in shapes of azure—strange, wild, mountainous shapes; and the noble heads of Ben Lomond, Ben Ledi, and Ben A'an were laurelled and jewelled for us by memories of Scott.

From The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Smith's continuous stream of productivity, her topical range, the accolades laureling her books, her prodigious artistic abilities, should be evidence enough to assuage her fears about credibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2018