pedestal

Standing on a concrete pedestal, the statue will depict the pontiff with open arms, wearing his long papal robe and a crucifix around his neck.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Parton asked them to withdraw the bill, saying that “given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

"Putting yourself on a pedestal is not going to help this conversation. Public trust is not something you're entitled to, you earn it. Actions have consequences."

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

He set the stone back on its pedestal.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Some artificial-intelligence stocks that got knocked off their pedestals, in part due to a bruising July selloff, now represent attractive opportunities for investors, according to BofA analysts.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

These beautiful buildings acting as pedestals for some kind of ad space, you know?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Further investigation by the SIT has revealed pilferage also from the pedestals and door frames and the court says that approximately 4.54kg gold has gone missing since 2019.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

“They are treated as gods and goddesses and put on pedestals for searching for and ‘representing’ truth and knowledge and recognizing and being proud of who they are and where they come from.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But to Back Bay he is an idol, firmly pedestaled.

From Time Magazine Archive

He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trainer swaggered up to a pedestaled tiger, thrust the chair at its open jaws.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coal followed one of the curves to the closest pedestaled mirror.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

So he drove them out, and stood alone confronting "Statuesque Balaustion pedestalled On much disapprobation and mistake."

From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield

Now, in a trice, he was not only admitted to comradeship, but patently valued as something rare and sacred to be acclaimed and pedestalled.

From Penrod by Booth Tarkington

She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity.

From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

It was Cromwell's mood, as one who, living under the eye of God, scorned the vapourings of pedestalled mortals.

From The Path of the King by John Buchan

To the passing fashion of modern thought there is something stiff, scholastic, archaic, rigid, and even Byzantine, about the words "truth," "beauty," "goodness," thus pedestalled side by side.

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys