How to Use mantelpiece in a Sentence

mantelpiece

noun
  • What do under-40s want on their walls and mantelpieces?
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As her friends dozed off, Adele’s eyes drifted to the mantelpiece.
    — Emma Carmichael, ELLE, 15 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The rag doll on the mantelpiece is supposed to fly, or maybe jump, to the chandelier.
    — NOLA.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The cabinet card was made to be held, cherished, or displayed on the mantelpiece.
    — Alexandra Genova, Time, 23 June 2017
  • The living room has a gas fireplace with a limestone mantelpiece, and there are walnut floors throughout.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • The concrete from the staircase shows up again in the kitchen island and as the living room’s fireplace mantelpiece.
    — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • And stagehands have pulled an audience member onstage to hold up a mantelpiece that keeps falling off the set.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Hundred-year-old marble mantelpieces weren’t then a consensus taste.
    — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • It can be used on your mantelpiece, entertainment system or stair railing.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Stray visitors to his home were struck by the photograph of Stalin on his mantelpiece.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • West 86th Street with a mantelpiece acquired from a Welsh castle.
    — Curbed, 9 June 2022
  • Well, here’s a round up of some stylish options that are ideal for your mantelpiece, coffee table, sideboard, and even outdoors.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Seven years later Fowler is putting together his own mantelpiece.
    — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
  • One is perhaps more likely to find a decoy adorning a collector’s mantelpiece than floating in a hunter’s rig.
    — baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018
  • Saft, not bothering to remove his sneakers, leaped onto a chair to place an ornate gold mirror over the mantelpiece.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement On the mantelpiece sit the alarm clocks meant to wake Gerry—but his friends were not the ones who placed them there.
    — Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Agents who know the truth about the corrupt old man who has Ryan’s balls on the mantelpiece at Mar-A-Lago?
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
  • String your Halloween garland across the mantelpiece for everyone to admire.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Cedar, fir, maple, walnut and exotic hardwoods such as parota and monkey pod are all great choices for floating shelves or a mantelpiece.
    — Issaquah Cedar and Lumber, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Steven Spielberg will soon have another accolade to add to his crowded mantelpiece.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2024
  • No one had his mysterious feeling for bathroom tiles and doorjambs, table edges, tub rims, mantelpieces and mirrors.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The mantelpiece is the perfect stage for fall decorating, offering an easy way to bring autumn indoors with rustic vibes and warm hues.
    — Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The fighters give a tour to the Al Jazeera journalist, and at one point one rolls up an Afghan flag in the palace and puts it on a mantelpiece.
    — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Naturally shed elk antlers on the back of the mantelpiece and simple Fraser fir garland will certainly do the trick.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2024
  • There is also a white marble mantelpiece with Greco Roman figures.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The resulting black and white portrait ended up on Fry's mantelpiece, where it was spotted by actor Kenneth Branagh.
    — CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • The multicolor bubble lamps sit on a long bed of faux holly and berries, which look elegant as a centerpiece or mantelpiece and harken back to childhood Christmases.
    — Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2025

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