plinth

Example Sentences

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Later that year, in October, an Extinction Rebellion activist was ordered to pay more than £1,500 for defacing the statue by painting "racist" on its plinth during a climate protest.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

The plinth art is renewed every few months.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

He said he created a micro sculpture of a graduation certificate being grasped by the hand of a newly qualified student, which is "less than a millimetre wide and set on a solid gold plinth".

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

But the thing on the left is just a geometric slab of no discernible purpose, a plinth with no identity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Harry stepped out from under the Cloak and climbed up onto Ravenclaw’s plinth to read them.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling