How to Use pedestal in a Sentence

pedestal

noun

• The pedestal is wired to electrodes that rest on the surface of the brain.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
• None of that seems to be enough to knock tech work off its pedestal.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
• Fourteen Seguin, Texas: world's largest pecan, on a pedestal in the town square.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
• The only thing not to like is the wide legs, so be sure to wall mount this or buy a pedestal.
  — WIRED, 28 Nov. 2022
• The pool was refilled and a replica of the Ba'al statue was placed on the pedestal at the lake's center in 2019.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• To date, the attacks haven’t knocked McCormick from his pedestal.
  — Eric Bradner, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
• Her mami wata was installed at the base of the pedestal.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• The hat sits on a pedestal in the middle of Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth.
  — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
• To my left, a bronze bust of a panther stared from a pedestal at eye level.
  — Rachel Corbett, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The Maximus skull is about 6.5 feet tall and is mounted on an iron pedestal.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Folks are climbing up on his pedestal, which is not roped off.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023
• When it is finished, the 12-foot statue will be placed on a four-foot pedestal.
  — Ernie Suggs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 31 Dec. 2022
• At the center sat Mom’s winning fuatha on its pedestal.
  — Adriana Trigiana, Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2023
• Give it extra height by putting it on top of a cement pedestal.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 15 Dec. 2022
• This is hoops heresy to Smartophiles who have put the point guard on a pedestal and are ready to put his number in the rafters.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• The lone piece of furniture, a bedlike platform, stands on a pedestal in the center of the room.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Instead of placing the plays on a pedestal, readers gain the agency to use them as a tool.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• The bird bath features a pedestal that provides a stable base.
  — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2023
• But after just a few heaves, the blocks of the pedestal slid apart, and Columbus tilted downward.
  — Erin L. Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2022
• By song’s end, Underwood was lifted a few feet off the ground on a pedestal.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2022
• The Thinker at the Cleveland Museum of Art is damaged by a bomb placed on its pedestal.
  — George Petras, USA Today, 30 Nov. 2022
• The statue was relocated to Red Mountain in the 1930s where it was placed on a pedestal with a park around the base.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2022
• But Shaw’s piece doesn’t place convention on a pedestal — quite the contrary.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
• The box that lies on the pedestal gives airs of gildedness despite being as plain as the walls that surround it.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• Clemishire added that pastors should not be put on pedestals and that too often, the victims are ignored.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2026
• Rhoades will have the buck mounted on a pedestal to display on a whiskey barrel in his business office.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2026
• Kaavia blew a kiss to the audience and left the pedestal.
  — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
• Instead of lowering on a pedestal, the tabletop folds out of the way against the wall.
  — New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2026
• The Islamic Republic is a theocracy that claims to rule from a moral pedestal.
  — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
• Others climbed a spiral staircase along the pedestal that supports the instrument.
  — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2025