Example sentences for: pedestal

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

  • Three tiers of elegant roofs rise from a solid brick pedestal at the center of the city, forming one of the emblems of Xi’an.

  • The article's author, Smithsonian curator Paul Forman, accused Gross and Levitt of trying to place "science back on its pre-postmodern pedestal."

  • In April 2000, the airport surveillance radar at Boston's Logan Airport was ripped from its mounting pedestal during severe weather conditions, severely reducing the number of flights in and out of Logan Airport.

  • Sculpted into its pedestal is, inter alia , the figure of a woman holding a torch.

  • In his rendition, the same fruit on a pedestal contains an element of dissonance, disturbance, and even violence.


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