put on a pedestal
Example Sentences
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I want to hear from the people that I put on a pedestal that they are hanging on by a thread.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2024
"It is surely worth considering who we, quite literally, put on a pedestal and why," its director of policy, Alesha De-Freitas, told BBC News.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024
A box with three glass walls has been put on a pedestal in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.
From Reuters ● Apr. 30, 2023
And in the beginning, Adena felt like somebody who was all-knowing and somebody Kat put on a pedestal.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2021
It is only the Carlyle kind of hero who could ever be put on a pedestal, or who would stay there if put there.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley
