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"Laurel" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Do you know of a dish that has laurel leaves in it?
King Anius here, enwreath'd with laurel spray, / the priest of Phoebus meets us on the way; / with joy at once he recognised again / his friend Anchises of an earlier day. / And joining hands in fellowship, each fain / to show a friendly heart the palace-halls we gain.
“Today’s launch was the culmination of six decades of scientific study and millions of hours of effort,” said project manager Andy Driesman, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
Laurel leaf tea is said to fight insomnia.
Do you hear Yanny or Laurel?
The leaves dropped from his imaginary crown of laurel; he turned to a gate, leant against it, and cried bitterly.
The laurel is an evergreen tree.
The laurel is typical of Mediterranean areas.
Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise.
to win laurels
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to crown with laurels
I was semi-famous; I had been something, but as one worthy critic remarked: past laurels fade fast.
Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.
It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.
In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.
Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still.
He was laurelled in admiring headlines from both left and right.
In 1973, the modern papist missionary was laurelled an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the institution founded by a Congregationalist missionary to the Indians of the northern wilds.
"What on earth made Becky give you a name like that?" she'd asked Laurel, on that first occasion. "It's the state flower of West Virginia," Laurel told her, smiling. "Where my mother came from."
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