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    Use "mantelpiece" in a sentence

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    mantelpiece


    1. On the mantelpiece above a red-brick crafts movement fireplace, she


    2. When I get home, I put it on the mantelpiece where I can see it


    3. By now she had grown accustomed to the weight of her mother’s old engagement ring on her finger and the Chinese style vase stood proudly in its new position on the fireplace mantelpiece


    4. He tries to focus on the clock above the mantelpiece


    5. He puts his coat on, picks up his wallet from the mantelpiece where Ken has been testing for dust, and follows the boys out of his top floor flat


    6. She also knew that her father kept a shotgun above his bed on his mantelpiece every night, but she was too scared to handle that either


    7. Finally, I came to the mantelpiece and found a litter of things


    8. "Put it down! Down, this instant, Watson--this instant, I say!" His head sank back upon the pillow and he gave a deep sigh of relief as I replaced the box upon the mantelpiece


    9. house you will see a small red box on my mantelpiece that


    10. A medal on the mantelpiece

    11. There was movement on the mantelpiece, and a small whiskered face with large rounded ears and black button eyes emerged from behind the carriage clock


    12. Over the opening of that fire-place is a mantelpiece, and near


    13. Mock-oranges and sea shells decorated the mantelpiece with strings of red bird’s eggs suspended above it


    14. I settled to the floor and walked over to the fireplace, climbed the stone with claws and feet to perch upon the slates of the mantelpiece


    15. Taking his keys from the mantelpiece and his cigarettes and lighter from the cupboard he quietly makes his way to the front door


    16. That explains why my trusty assistant and I were knocking on the door of this modest suburban brick veneer, hoping the articles mentioned would be mounted over the mantelpiece or such


    17. Eagle eyes failed to find the articles or even a mantelpiece but I did see something on a sideboard that took my interest


    18. The most significant to my mind, was a bottle of rum, open upon the mantelpiece, with little more than an inch of liquid left


    19. When the agents had appeared amongst them, guns in hand, Matilda had been the first to react, seizing one of them and dashing his head against the mantelpiece


    20. Eventually, Bill looked at the old carriage clock on the mantelpiece

    21. There was a photo on the mantelpiece — two young women


    22. He didn’t know how long he stood there alone, leaning against the fireplace, his knuckles turned white in their fierce grip of the mantelpiece


    23. ’ Mother wandered over to the mantelpiece, where her bottle stood, half empty


    24. Family photographs crowded the mantelpiece above the roaring fire


    25. ” The Great Goddess calmed and soothed my anguished spirit and I slept again, but woke to confusion as hands bumped and jostled my painting into the same mantelpiece position it had held in Castle Desiree’s sitting room


    26. Warmth pumped into the room through vents just beneath the mantelpiece


    27. Aya shrugged, running a finger across the dusty mantelpiece


    28. However, he obviously had and there was also a scrap of paper on the mantelpiece with the name Brigit Rolanne and a telephone number scribbled on it


    29. " She nodded at the framed daguerreotype of her father now back on the mantelpiece


    30. He stood beside the mantelpiece, its height perfect for resting his elbow, and watched the proceedings with a closed expression

    31. "I disagree," Jacob said from his usual place by the mantelpiece


    32. Jacob moved away from the mantelpiece and stood before me


    33. " He stood by the mantelpiece and held out his hand in a go-on gesture


    34. He stood by the fireplace, one elbow on the mantelpiece, having not sat down the entire time


    35. Two candles flickering on the mantelpiece provided a little light, illuminating a mess


    36. Most of the figurines, candelabras and other objects that had decorated the mantelpiece, walls and tables were either broken or missing although a few had been spared


    37. “The keys are on the mantelpiece,” replied Linda while pointing to the mantelpiece with her eyes


    38. Mikhail quickly took Linda’s car keys from the mantelpiece, and confident that the young girls were still fast asleep, he crept out of the cottage


    39. Then, without any warning, his face contorted and he smashed the glass of the frame against the corner of the mantelpiece, yanked out the photo, and threw it at Rafferty


    40. on the otherwise bare mantelpiece

    41. The photograph of his Gran looked down from him on the mantelpiece


    42. He looked at the clock on the mantelpiece


    43. Inside, he looked at the photograph of Mae Lin on the mantelpiece over the fire


    44. As she shut the door he put so many shillings on the mantelpiece


    45. Here comes Lady Venice displayed like a monument for admiration, but carved in alabaster, to be set on the mantelpiece and never dusted


    46. Grandage, glancing at the clock on the mantelpiece


    47. Her father stood leaning his head on the mantelpiece and did not turn as she came in, but her mother stretched out her arms as if for help, and Jo went to comfort her without a word


    48. In the corner behind the door, shining hob-nailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth; a Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gunflints, candle-ends, and bits of amadou


    49. When the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the sitting-room, a long apartment with a low ceiling, in which there was on the mantelpiece a large bunch of coral spread out against the looking-glass


    50. She was thinking how to get out of this when the servant coming in put on the mantelpiece a small roll of blue paper "from Monsieur Derozeray's












































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    Synonyms for "mantelpiece"

    chimneypiece mantel mantelpiece mantle mantlepiece

    "mantelpiece" definitions

    shelf that projects from wall above fireplace