LAUREL in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for LAUREL, such as:
1. Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.
2. She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.
3. The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel branches.
4. The song was considered a great success, and the singer retired covered with laurels.
5. The writers for this episode certainly don't rest on their laurels from the season opener.
2. She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.
3. The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel branches.
4. The song was considered a great success, and the singer retired covered with laurels.
5. The writers for this episode certainly don't rest on their laurels from the season opener.
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Meanings and Examples of LAUREL
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laurel
n. United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)
n. (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly.
2 The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving.
3 It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
4 The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel branches.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
5 She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.
6 Behind a hedge of laurel a light glimmered in the window of a kitchen and the voice of a servant was heard singing as she sharpened knives.
7 The Doctor was a semi-retired physician, resting, as the saying is, upon his laurels.
8 Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.
9 They were insignificant; still, in a district where laurels were infrequent, they might shine.
10 The song was considered a great success, and the singer retired covered with laurels.
11 When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels.
12 He took his way, as Mary had done, through the door in the shrubbery and among the laurels and the fountain beds.
13 My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general.
14 For our own part, we do not think so; it seems to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the shoes from a dead man.
15 Scarcely had I spoken thus; suddenly all seemed to shake, all the courts and laurels of the god, the whole hill to be stirred round about, and the cauldron to moan in the opening sanctuary.
Example Sentence:
1 "Jane," he recommenced, as we entered the laurel walk, "Thornfield is a pleasant place in summer, is it not?"
2 The writers for this episode certainly don't rest on their laurels from the season opener.