Crossword-Solution: PEDESTAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pedestal | n. | The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. |
| Pedestal | n. | A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box. |
| Pedestal | n. | A pillow block; a low housing. |
| Pedestal | n. | An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with PEDESTAL (5)
One day in the greatest rage he went to the Wooden God, and with one blow swept it down from its pedestal.
While this passed, Hester Prynne had been standing on her pedestal, still with a fixed gaze towards the stranger—so fixed a gaze that, at moments of intense absorption, all other objects in the visible world seemed to vanish, leaving only him and her.
Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter.
There, in the faint starlight, they saw a bulky man, barefoot, half dressed, chopping away at the white post that formed the pedestal of the dove-house.
And know you further by witness of thine own eyes that see him here now upon the Pedestal of Truth that he has indeed returned from these sacred precincts in the face of our ancient customs, and in violation of the sanctity of our ancient religion.
Quotes with PEDESTAL (3)
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1957–2022).