mantel
Example Sentences
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The mantel had grown too heavy, and the gig was up.
From Salon
She entered her grandparents’ home, where her grandfather, so distraught, fetched a photo of Tess that had been sitting on the mantel.
From Washington Post
When I recently visited his home, he had a collection of Santa knickknacks on the mantel.
From New York Times
President Harry S. Truman, back home in Missouri, rejected several entreaties to return the State Dining Room mantel that big-game hunter President Theodore Roosevelt had installed in 1902, with carved bison heads on each end.
From Washington Post
Bill Pagel takes a small vase off the mantel and shows me the crack across the bottom and how it’s been glued back together.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
