Example sentences for: laurels

How can you use “laurels” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Others given victor's laurels included NATO, described by the London Observer as having "saved its reputation and credibility, gaining time to improve its effectiveness as a guarantor of peace"; and the new world order celebrated in Andrew Marr's column in the Observer , "What has happened is a decisive and perhaps terminal defeat for an older Europe, a place of tribal hatreds, double-headed eagles, flaming swords and obscure martyrs.

  • And yet, as a member of the Conservancy, you know that we can't rest on our laurels or relax and feel secure.

  • At 31, she has already had more ad hoc laurels lavished on her than many legends receive even posthumously.

  • The supreme self-made man, Bonaparte in 1804 became Emperor Napoleon at a coronation ceremony in which he audaciously took the crown of golden laurels from the pope and placed it on his own head.

  • More recently, a quality Sunday newspaper has run an advertisement for a nippy hatchback car under the caption A hardy performer wins its laurels.


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