How to Use plinth in a Sentence

plinth

noun

• Down go all ten of the plinths, taking the art with them.
  — Raisa Bruner, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2017
• In the gallery the piece that had been in the water sits on a low plinth before the screen.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
• The plinth is a solid chunk of MDF, and the platter is a heavy steel one.
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• From a distance, the back of this house looks like a sculpture set on a brick plinth.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
• Yet Colston was revered; the plaque fixed to the plinth made no mention of slavery.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2020
• The entire plinth is wrapped in one of three durable foil finishes.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• The bronze plinth, erected in 1924, valorized a young soldier in the Southern army.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
• This is a car that would look as natural sitting on a plinth as in a garage.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2022
• The man putting it on a plinth was Chinese, Mr. Mugane noted.
  — Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 8 June 2017
• The protesters tied rope around the bronze statue of Colston and pulled it down from its plinth.
  — CNN, 11 Dec. 2021
• In the room’s center is a hot stone plinth heated from the inside, with a small pipe that provides steam.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 19 July 2018
• Each niche frames a plinth and is in turn framed by a pair of robust columns two stories high.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Others climbed onto the empty plinth and raised their fists.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• Arroyos’ hat, white gloves and a single rose rested on a plinth.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Sunk into the ground at the base of each tree was a small concrete plinth to which was affixed a tiny copper name tag.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• It was bolted to a tall plinth, lit up at night, fenced off and adjacent to a busy state highway.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
• Once on the roof deck, it was mounted on a four-foot box with a plinth on top that allows the art to rotate on an axel.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2023
• In the 19th century, three of the plinths were crowned with statues of kings and military leaders, but the fourth was not filled.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
• Nas wondered aloud to me if the big move catalyzed her problem — and their grandmother was the plinth of their lives.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2021
• At the time of its erection, the statue seems to have cost about $5,000, but that included its granite plinth.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2017
• In a park in Budapest, Hungary, a grand stairway leads up to a kind of altar, atop which is a brick plinth.
  — Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
• The plaque was pried off a large plinth about a year after it was installed, according to police.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• The land that housed both the statue and the plinth will be returned to the city, the state's Democratic governor explained in a press release.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2021
• Aware of that status, Northam’s office still plans to take down the metal statue — though the fate of its stone plinth is an open question.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• The pipes guests sat on during the runway show have since become plinths for jewelry.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2019
• The artist is also adding two more corgis by the Queen’s side, and the base of the plinth the statue ultimately rests on will have a bench for people to sit.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• Our tour concludes outside at sunset, in the Crater Bowl, where four stone plinths encircle the Crater’s Eye.
  — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2019
• Models of architectural and design details sit on a large plinth in the middle of the gallery.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Atop each plinth, Corkery positions a biomorphic fiberboard cutout, squirmy in the mode of Hans Arp.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
• The bronze statue, which stands seven-feet tall, shows Queen Elizabeth as a young woman surrounded by her beloved corgis atop a stone plinth.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024