laurel

Example Sentences

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Michelle O'Neill attended the event and laid a laurel wreath at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall in her role as first minister for the second year in a row.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

As she sits at her piano, sunshine filtered through laurel trees, Karen Palmer is now at home — in her city and with herself.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

A number of the trees cut down by the vandal appeared to be Indian laurel figs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

On 1 July 2002 he laid a laurel wreath at the monument, hours ahead of the main council ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

As I pushed aside the mountain laurel, I saw three two-by-fours and some planks lying across several of the lower limbs of the tree.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George