pedestal

How To Use pedestal In A Sentence

• ‘Of course, if you fail, and you have been put on that pedestal, it is a lot harder because you have further to fall,’ he said.
• The town hall lost two bollards and a litter bin, railings, and a large stone pedestal has been cracked.
• The statue's pedestal bears an inscription that reads ‘Love.’
• Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
• He stacked the books on pedestals, making three mysterious columns on one side of the shadowy gallery, two on the other.
• The typical sewage ejector toilet consists of a pedestal made of polyethylene, which acts as a base for mounting the toilet.
• After his long stretch as an untouchable hero and saint (courtesy of hagiographer R Bolt) it was about time that creep More was taken off his pedestal. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• The family bathroom has a green suite comprising a bath, pedestal hand basin, toilet and step-in shower.
• The chair has four legs, pedestal or swivel base with castors.
• Beginning in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, shoes were worn with pattens - carved wooden supports with pedestals under the heel and ball - to protect the shoes.