LAURELS in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for LAURELS, 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.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAURELS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
laurels
 n.  honors conferred for some notable achievement; credit
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The Doctor was a semi-retired physician, resting, as the saying is, upon his laurels.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
2  Yet they would receive laurels from tradition.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  They were insignificant; still, in a district where laurels were infrequent, they might shine.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
4  The song was considered a great success, and the singer retired covered with laurels.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
5  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.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IX
6  He took his way, as Mary had done, through the door in the shrubbery and among the laurels and the fountain beds.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  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.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
9  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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
10  And the conquering people are not, I hope, to be slaves by conquest, and wear their laurels only to shew they are sacrifices to their leaders triumph.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
13  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
14  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
15  She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  The writers for this episode certainly don't rest on their laurels from the season opener.
2  "Jane," he recommenced, as we entered the laurel walk, "Thornfield is a pleasant place in summer, is it not?"