Example sentences for: laurels

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

  • But look at this week's Faludimania cover package from Newsweek's point of view: They're heaping laurels onto someone who's called them a bunch of sexist ninnies!

  • Grand but run-down buildings, with fading flamingo-pink and lime-green façades and ornate columns, flank a raised promenade of laurels, gas lamps, and marble benches.

  • "If NATO does prevail, and every single Serb soldier is driven from Kosovo, and every last refugee is repatriated, then Blair's brows will be crowned with the laurels owed to the man who urged the Alliance on," Johnson wrote.

  • "[I]ts laurels weren't just nods to jingoistic values in a time of social upheaval."

  • The Booker, and all the laurels, are "about my past, not my future," says this ace of the apothegm.


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