Example sentences for: medals

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

  • In 1936 a flame was brought from Athens to Berlin to inaugurate the Olympic Games, an attempt at Aryan propaganda which was soundly destroyed by black athlete Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals.

  • When it re-opens, it will carry displays of Early Christian, Byzantine, and European art, together with ancient coins and medals.

  • It takes religion, removes all the dark images that drive up its negatives--like judgment, obligation, or anything that might not be career enhancing--and replaces them with self-esteem and moral medals of honor.

  • The Associated Press tallied his long list of medals and called him "the most dominating track and field athlete of the 1990s."

  • When, under Clinton appointee James Lee Witt, the agency finally earned rave notices for its response to the Great Flood of 1993, only the dullest functionary could have missed the lesson: When you do battle with disaster, no medals are awarded for being stingy.


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