Recent Examples on the WebBillie 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 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 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 Hawn, Nicholson, Hoffman and Voight would all have at least one Oscar on their mantelpiece by the time the ’80s dawned and were now as much a part of the Hollywood elite as Wayne and Hope were on that April evening.—Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
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