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UK
/lˈɔːɹəlz/
]
[ US /ˈɫɔɹəɫz/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔɹəɫz/ ]
NOUN
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a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
an award for bravery - the state of being honored
How To Use laurels In A Sentence
- Since moving here, George has learned the names of almost all the things that are growing on the land: he can point out abelia bushes, spirea, laurels. The New Yorker Stories
- The _xystus_, or garden, adjoining the house had been laid out like a Grecian landscape with cypresses and laurels between squares of roses and violets. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
- The company that brought the world the radial-ply tyre has not been resting on its laurels and has presented a novel four-seater car with tiny motors inside the wheels.
- Nowadays there are a number of rival products on the market and the older, established companies are having to look to their laurels.
- The small black cherries resemble choke cherry fruits & just like choke cherries are inaccurately regarded as toxic, or have been mistaken for toxic because true laurels are toxic.
- _Cleyera Japonica; _ cotoneasters and pyracantha; eleagnus of the types grown under glass in the North; gardenias; euonymus (A); hollies (A); anise-tree, _Illicium anisatum; _ cherry laurels, _Prunus_ or Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
- The club members participated in many inter-school competitions and won laurels to the school.
- While less deference may be due now that the formal authority's impuissance has been exposed, this is not the time to mock, point fingers, or rest on our laurels. Karthika Sasikumar: The Fractures That Breed Danger
- The other sort of band that gets high critical laurels is less radically innovative, but (to borrow Malcolm Gladwell’s terminology) “tweaks” recent innovations, polishing them and making them palatable to a broader audience. This Post Is SO Overrated
- Guanches, exhibits five zones of plants, which we may distinguish by the names — region of vines, region of laurels, region of pines, region of the retama, and region of grasses. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America