Recent Examples on the WebNo one had his mysterious feeling for bathroom tiles and doorjambs, table edges, tub rims, mantelpieces and mirrors.—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024 Steven Spielberg will soon have another accolade to add to his crowded mantelpiece.—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2024 Naturally shed elk antlers on the back of the mantelpiece and simple Fraser fir garland will certainly do the trick.—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2024 Billie Eilish should make some room on her mantelpiece.—Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024 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 By her death in 1942, Beaux’s thick, buttery style was as out of place as a 14th-century French mantelpiece in a 1911 Arts & Crafts building.—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Oct. 2023 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
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