pedestal in English

noun
1
the base or support on which a statue, obelisk, or column is mounted.
But the designs show two nude male statues on pedestals in the entrance hall below vast battle paintings and two more in the great domed central hall.
2
a position in which someone is greatly or uncritically admired.
It's as if I'm on a pedestal and he worships me – I hate that

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1. Basins installed with a pedestal or shroud are referred to as pedestal Basins

2. Buddhism borrowed the lotus pedestal from Brahma.

3. The lead dancer appeared on a revolving pedestal.

4. My last boyfriend put me on a pedestal.

5. You put me up on a pedestal.

6. He dismounted a statue from its pedestal.

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8. Above: A Norber erratic on its limestone pedestal.

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12. M coaxial coils are arranged adjacent to the pedestal.

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16. Acropodium ( plural Acropodia ) ( architecture) A plinth or pedestal bearing a statue

17. A readily adjustable and lockable pedestal for an access floor assembly

18. This recent scandal has really knocked the President off his pedestal.

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20. Podium: In architecture, a pedestal on a large scale. Sentencedict.com

21. The pedestal offers support for the Basin and hides the pipework

22. 12 On the mantel a bust of Keats on a pedestal.

23. And Murph will come down from that good-guy pedestal a little.

24. A noise attenuating and vibration dampening pedestal for an access floor assembly

25. The pedestal , plinth, or base of a pillar , column , or statue.

26. In Khabarovsk his statue is back on the pedestal that Lenin usurped.

27. Recently, a small crack appeared in our pedestal hand basin in the bathroom.

28. He is portrayed sitting on a pedestal with a topknot and holding a harp.

29. In the shadows, in front of an outcrop of rock, stood a pedestal. Sentencedict.com

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31. “From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome,” says a sonnet at her pedestal.

32. Instead of picking them up, she moved behind the pedestal as if taking refuge.

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34. “We place [Jesus Christ] on a pedestal as no other group I know of.

35. And should we allow ourselves as ministers to be placed on a pedestal of adulation?

36. Eiffel's iron framework was anchored to steel I-beams within the concrete pedestal and assembled.

37. In 1881, the New York committee commissioned Richard Morris Hunt to design the pedestal.

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39. Being placed on an artificial pedestal can be of advantage to the Volunteer as innovator.

40. The submersible stanchion includes a pedestal base, and a column which includes an accessory attachment element.

41. The island reopened at the end of 2001, while the pedestal and statue remained off-limits.

42. 21 Pedestal: In Classical architecture a support or Base for a column, statue, vase or obelisk.

43. The Trà Kiệu pedestal of the 10th century supports a massive lingam and ablutionary cistern.

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45. He respects, looks up to, objects placed on a pedestal ... but only within limits!

46. I was the most beautiful, wonderful woman and he put me on a pedestal.

47. Don't try to put her on a pedestal, she's as guilty as the rest of them!

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49. But on their return to Moscow they were removed from their pedestal to a low plinth.

50. They were worried about losing their place on the pedestal they erected and scaled themselves.