How to Use mantelpiece in a Sentence

mantelpiece

noun

• Any writer would be proud to have it on the mantelpiece.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• The rag doll on the mantelpiece is supposed to fly, or maybe jump, to the chandelier.
  — NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• As her friends dozed off, Adele’s eyes drifted to the mantelpiece.
  — Emma Carmichael, ELLE, 15 Aug. 2022
• Agents who know the truth about the corrupt old man who has Ryan’s balls on the mantelpiece at Mar-A-Lago?
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
• The mechanism was held in a wooden case, a bit like a clock that might go on the mantelpiece.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
• The fighters give a tour to the Al Jazeera journalist, and at one point one rolls up an Afghan flag in the palace and puts it on a mantelpiece.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2021
• The concrete from the staircase shows up again in the kitchen island and as the living room’s fireplace mantelpiece.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
• The cabinet card was made to be held, cherished, or displayed on the mantelpiece.
  — Alexandra Genova, Time, 23 June 2017
• West 86th Street with a mantelpiece acquired from a Welsh castle.
  — Curbed, 9 June 2022
• The living room has a gas fireplace with a limestone mantelpiece, and there are walnut floors throughout.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• But this is a photograph by his bathroom, not a mantelpiece.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• Stray visitors to his home were struck by the photograph of Stalin on his mantelpiece.
  — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• Each showed a single woman seated on a simple chair and leaning against the mantelpiece around a fireplace.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• And stagehands have pulled an audience member onstage to hold up a mantelpiece that keeps falling off the set.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
• Shaw died in his English country house in 1950 with a signed photograph of Stalin on his mantelpiece.
  — M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 5 Dec. 2020
• Billie Eilish should make some room on her mantelpiece.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
• Well, here’s a round up of some stylish options that are ideal for your mantelpiece, coffee table, sideboard, and even outdoors.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• These postmortem photographs, as they are known, were popular from the mid-19th through the early-20th centuries—common enough to grace mantelpieces.
  — Nancy West, The Atlantic, 19 July 2017
• While receiving any award is good for the ego and the mantelpiece, the Oscar is seen as the pinnacle for composers — and most likely to yield the biggest financial payoff.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2020
• Docents in the Victorian house pointed out the 2,000-pound mantelpiece made of Italian marble and the light fixtures that are French antiques.
  — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2018
• There are 34 barristers at 4 Stone, including Jonathan Crow, whose office features a stuffed crow on the mantelpiece.
  — Simon Akam, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
• One is perhaps more likely to find a decoy adorning a collector’s mantelpiece than floating in a hunter’s rig.
  — baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018
• The other day, in West Hollywood, the twenty-five-year-old music producer Blake Slatkin stuck his hand into a doll house on his mantelpiece.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The house already had marble mantelpieces and a Jacuzzi, but Manafort took it to a new level, adding a two-story extension out back, new windows, a roof deck and a slate walkway.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
• The resulting black and white portrait ended up on Fry's mantelpiece, where it was spotted by actor Kenneth Branagh.
  — CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
• Fisher was the founding director of the Bank of Westminster and did many renovations to the house, adding then-trendy Greek Revival touches such as the present front door and casing and the parlor’s mantelpiece.
  — Frank Batavick, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 June 2021
• Cedar, fir, maple, walnut and exotic hardwoods such as parota and monkey pod are all great choices for floating shelves or a mantelpiece.
  — Issaquah Cedar and Lumber, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2017
• There is a blue plaque on the mantelpiece commemorating Lydon, and is the only evidence of the musician living here.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
• Hundred-year-old marble mantelpieces weren’t then a consensus taste.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• The mantelpiece is adorned with a wooden ship that was acquired for $17, antlers that were picked up during a hike, and miscellaneous metal boxes and bowls purchased at an estate sale for pennies.
  — Diana Bruk, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2015

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024