How To Use Laurels In A Sentence
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I guess I got all bigheaded (or rested on my laurels, or something).
I’m seeing a trend | clusterflock
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Plant vigorous species for large hedges 70cm (28in) apart: laurels, photinia, elaeagnus, yew, viburnum, holly, griselinia, cypress.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I would be more than happy if some latent talent is spotted in this event and would go on to win laurels at the highest level,’ was his observation on the occasion.
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His birth chart indicates much tension in his love life and suggests a divine discontent that would never let him rest on his laurels.
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The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.
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In Kentucky, the plant is often associated with azaleas, mountain laurels and bellworts under the dappled shade of birch trees.
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The laurels clearly go to Speke when it comes to discovering the source of the Nile.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She has therefore an opportunity for exercising in behalf of her dog that beautiful self-abnegation which is said to be a part of woman's nature, impelling her always to prefer that her laurels should be worn by somebody else.
Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
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Putnam's service as a ranger, his capture and torture by Indians, his shipwreck and exploits during the British invasion of Cuba won him military laurels.
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The few heads that have either been found in or associated with the sanctuary show bearded men with long curly hair wearing wreaths, probably of laurels.
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The writers for this episode certainly don't rest on their laurels from the season opener.
July 2009
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I think that the avant-garde suggests that no poet can “rest on their laurels” for very long without reinventing the future of poetry itself — and hence, the avant-garde has often seen the need to revisit the neglected, unexalted techniques of writing for overlooked potentials ….
2007 September : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
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Most amazingly, at 78, the veteran bluesman doesn't understand the concept of slowing down or resting on his laurels.
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But don't rest on your laurels; there will probably still be room for improvement.
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They are tedious, but the "waggery" is conspicuous by its absence.] {509} [mq] _With all his laurels growing upon one tree_.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
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The actors are very good, but when all is considered the laurels must surely go to the director of the play.
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When most people would sit on their laurels and "give it up," Carter says "giddyup," teach me some more!
Archive 2006-03-01
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No doubt that Cannes nod (the first of several festival laurels picked up) stirred some controversy, because this is the kind of unflinchingly provocative movie that dares you to be entertained, or appalled, or both.
Reviews
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Just as she said now she said she's willing to engage directly in Iran and primary voters are really looking for someone that isn't trying to cruise on their laurels and they want to know where she stands on the issues and she's kind of skirting some of those issues.
CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007
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The laurels usually go to the spatial designers who often design the planting detail as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since moving here, George has learned the names of almost all the things that are growing on the land: he can point out abelia bushes, spirea, laurels.
The New Yorker Stories
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And though his realistic and hard-hitting film has won some rave reviews, Tigmanshu is certainly not resting on his laurels.
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The laurels usually go to the spatial designers who often design the planting detail as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their adaptive radiation occurred in the Eocene when palms, figs, lipid-rich laurels, and other extant families were prominent.
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Once beyond the gates the short avenue, covered overhead with ancient laurels, leads on to a circular drive in front of the house with the centre of the grassed area featuring roses and a raised bird bath.
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NASA can't cut it anymore; the agency has lost its way, and is mired in resting on its laurels, rather than setting goals for its future, and our country, that is beyond our grasp.
Dear Santa - NASA Watch
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: The experimental 'Schwarzwald' movie comes to Town Leather Laurels: Celebrating Mid-Atlantic Leather's quarter century in style
Metro Weekly (Newspaper Magazine of Gay and Lesbian DC)
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Among the others are tanoaks, California black oaks, Shreve's oaks, madrones, rhododendrons, manzanita, big leaf maples and bay laurels.
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Woodrow Wilson, college professor, man of mystery, political recluse, the nominee of the most standpat Democratic convention of many years, had been chosen the leader of the people of the state by the unprecedented majority of 39,000, and was wearing the laurels of victory.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
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Victorious motor racing drivers have laurels hung around their necks and in Hawaii visitors are greeted with welcoming leis.
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The Canadians, about 1000 strong, were "a sicht for sair e'en," as the Scots would say, a hale, well-grown, muscular set of men, who evidently appreciated the magnificent reception that was accorded them, and who as evidently meant to earn laurels in the service of the great Queen Mother.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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Its flora is dominated by ferns, pines, Sequoia, laurels, and Platanus.
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With the luxury market now soaring, Ng is not resting on his laurels and says he expects a duplex on the 79th and 80th floors to fetch an even higher price.
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However, the piano trio is his real métier and as he approaches his 80th year, and in spite of a stroke in 1993, he does not rest on his laurels.
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-- of Michelle Malkin's "In Defense of Internment," which, notwithstanding its ignorance and falsification of both domestic and military history, has garnered (equally ignorant) laurels from the right.
IsThatLegal?
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The laurels clearly go to Speke when it comes to discovering the source of the Nile.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others.
Arrested Development
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After years of resting on its laurels, Milan is finding its mojo again.
Times, Sunday Times
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I threw myself headlong into my father's work, acquainted myself with all the plans, their merits and defects, read besides in special books, made myself a master of the theory of strains, studied the current prices of materials, and (in one word) "devilled" the whole business so thoroughly, that when the plans came up for consideration, Big Head Dodd was supposed to have earned fresh laurels.
The Wrecker
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Not only was she a dancer of international repute, a teacher, and a rehearsal director, but she also managed things behind the scenes with quiet reliability, without taking the laurels.
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But you can't rest on your laurels - you must create your CV to get yourself on the next step of the ladder.
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Through a gap in the laurels they could see the ocean, stabbingly blue in contrast to the white dunes which reared battlements along the top of the gravel cliff.
The Innocents A Story for Lovers
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The flashing of torches and the beautiful radiance of blue lights (technically, Bengal lights) upon the heads of our horses; the fine effect of such a showery and ghostly illumination falling upon our flowers and glittering laurels [Footnote: "_Glittering laurels_": -- I must observe that the colour of _green_ suffers almost a spiritual change and exaltation under the effect of Bengal lights.]; whilst all around ourselves, that formed a centre of light, the darkness gathered on the rear and flanks in massy blackness: these optical splendours, together with the prodigious enthusiasm of the people, composed a picture at once scenical and affecting, theatrical and holy.
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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Among the others are tanoaks, California black oaks, Shreve's oaks, madrones, rhododendrons, manzanita, big leaf maples and bay laurels.
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Covering an area of 4,330 square metres with a lawn in front and a garden behind, the building is surrounded by evergreen camphor laurels.
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A year later, the king was crowned with the laurels of victory at Fontenoy.
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Manager Terry Dolan is refusing to rest on his laurels after York City's 2-1 win at Leyton Orient boosted the team's survival hopes and ended a season-long hoodoo.
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Indeed, NASA had a little more than a nanosecond to rest on its laurels.
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Rounding up, Salih stressed that it would be foolish and unkind to turn down laurels bestowed by those who appreciated your work.
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The laurels usually go to the spatial designers who often design the planting detail as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Areas of granite and sandstone became colonized by maquis, a low, dense cover of ilex, briars, broom, tree heathers, and laurels.
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I guess I got all bigheaded or rested on my laurels, or something.
I’m seeing a trend | clusterflock
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Don't rest on your laurels once you leave the office: pitching is also important in your personal life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the years, he has won several laurels competing in international events in Japan, Australia, and the United States.
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The smooth shining laurels in the shrubbery were the only things in nature that seemed no worse for the perpetual downpour.
Vixen, Volume I.
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Since moving here, George has learned the names of almost all the things that are growing on the land: he can point out abelia bushes, spirea, laurels.
The New Yorker Stories
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The laurels usually go to the spatial designers who often design the planting detail as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Matisse was not one to rest on his laurels, and he continued studying various styles including primitive art, and the work of painters in other disciplines.
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Guanches, exhibits five zones of plants, which we may distinguish by the names — region of vines, region of laurels, region of pines, region of the retama, and region of grasses.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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The other sort of band that gets high critical laurels is less radically innovative, but (to borrow Malcolm Gladwell’s terminology) “tweaks” recent innovations, polishing them and making them palatable to a broader audience.
This Post Is SO Overrated
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While less deference may be due now that the formal authority's impuissance has been exposed, this is not the time to mock, point fingers, or rest on our laurels.
Karthika Sasikumar: The Fractures That Breed Danger
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The club members participated in many inter-school competitions and won laurels to the school.
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_Cleyera Japonica; _ cotoneasters and pyracantha; eleagnus of the types grown under glass in the North; gardenias; euonymus (A); hollies (A); anise-tree, _Illicium anisatum; _ cherry laurels, _Prunus_ or
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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The small black cherries resemble choke cherry fruits & just like choke cherries are inaccurately regarded as toxic, or have been mistaken for toxic because true laurels are toxic.
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Nowadays there are a number of rival products on the market and the older, established companies are having to look to their laurels.
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The company that brought the world the radial-ply tyre has not been resting on its laurels and has presented a novel four-seater car with tiny motors inside the wheels.
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The _xystus_, or garden, adjoining the house had been laid out like a Grecian landscape with cypresses and laurels between squares of roses and violets.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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Plant vigorous species for large hedges 70cm (28in) apart: laurels, photinia, elaeagnus, yew, viburnum, holly, griselinia, cypress.
Times, Sunday Times
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The proposal is to develop an industry to remove large camphor laurels for sawlogs, use the residue for power generation in an existing sugar mill during the off season, and replace the camphor laurel trees with native species.
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Lee on the other hand, will be stuck with the primadona principal, the useless superintendent, and a school board who sits on their b u t t s they call laurels and allow more of the same to go on for years to come.
Undefined
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To help fight complacency, Saints coach Sean Payton organized this symbolic burial (above and below) of the team's collective trophies and laurels from the 2006 season near the team's practice field.
Brees becomes new patron Saint in New Orleans
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It would be easy to rest on our laurels, but that isn't my way - and it isn't public television's, either.
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When it does, it will exhibit characteristic Olmsted features: tangled rhododendrons and disheveled mountain laurels mixed with evergreen shrubs, surrounding a curved swath of turf — hardly the Sheep Meadow of Central Park, but a pleasing choreography of greens.
A Brand-New Olmsted
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So that since the excellencies of it may be so easily and so justly confirmed, and the low-creeping objections so soon trodden down: it not being an art of lies, but of true doctrine; not of effeminateness, but of notable stirring of courage; not of abusing mans wit, but of strengthening mans wit; not banished, but honored by Plato; let us rather plant more laurels for to engarland our poets headswhich honor of being laureate, as besides them only triumphant captains were, is a sufficient authority to show the price they ought to be held inthan suffer the ill-savored breath of such wrong speakers once to blow upon the clear springs of poesy.
The Defense of Poesy
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_Cleyera Japonica; _ cotoneasters and pyracantha; eleagnus of the types grown under glass in the North; gardenias; euonymus (A); hollies (A); anise-tree, _Illicium anisatum; _ cherry laurels, _Prunus_ or
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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He has no intention of sitting back on his laurels, but will continue his commitment to the provision of housing in the city.
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On the day that the PLP seeks to wrap itself in laurels of humanitarianism, their Government admits that there are still no funds to replace the decrepit and wholly inadequate homeless shelter in Bermuda.
Global Voices in English » Bermuda: Guantanamo Protest
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Not one to rest on his laurels, the last few years have seen the front man branch out with two diverse releases of his own.
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Think about adding hollies, laurels, camellias, castor-oil plant, sweet box, phormium, acanthus and hart's tongue fern.
Times, Sunday Times
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His experiments in bronze sculpture were deep-rooted and won laurels.
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Oscar, as the WBO champion, would put an exclamation point on his career if he were able to add the other three belts to his laurels.
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The path was lined with laurels.
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The _Pandanus_ alone forms a conspicuous feature in the immediate vicinity of Churra; while the small woods about Mamloo, Moosmai, and the coal-pits, are composed of _Symplocos, _ laurels, brambles, and jasmines, mixed with small oaks and _Photinia, _ and many tropical genera of trees and shrubs.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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The same conductor later won laurels for his interpretations of Sibelius.
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Based on the Elena Stancanelli novel, the feature riffs beautifully on various bits of pop and film history, but never feels like a cheap ripoff, or like a work that rests on its referential laurels.
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All nature -- its most comprehensive cosmic realms as well as the realms of its smallest organisms -- together with the corporeal, psychical, and spiritual nature of man, shows a _harmony_, a _conformity to the end in view_, and a _striving toward an end_ of its development, the denial of which will certainly not add to the laurels which transmit the scientific fame of our present generation to posterity.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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The actors are very good, but when all is considered the laurels must surely go to the director of the play.
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Rhododendrons and some azaleas, mountain laurels, leucothoes and Japanese pieris might show signs of wilting, and you might even experience a loss of some shrubs as the season progresses.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
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Don't rest on your laurels once you leave the office: pitching is also important in your personal life.
Times, Sunday Times
