How to Use plinth in a Sentence

plinth

noun
  • And what if the base for the head is a plinth in the shape of a cardboard box?
    — K. Desbouis, Artforum, 6 Feb. 2026
  • An empty room with the plinths and whatnot.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Both late critics deserve their plinths.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Mar. 2026
  • From a distance, the back of this house looks like a sculpture set on a brick plinth.
    — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
  • In the gallery the piece that had been in the water sits on a low plinth before the screen.
    — Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The entire plinth is wrapped in one of three durable foil finishes.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • This is a car that would look as natural sitting on a plinth as in a garage.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Arroyos’ hat, white gloves and a single rose rested on a plinth.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Each niche frames a plinth and is in turn framed by a pair of robust columns two stories high.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Yet Colston was revered; the plaque fixed to the plinth made no mention of slavery.
    — The Economist, 13 June 2020
  • Built on plinths high above the ground, these are showcases of worldliness.
    — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2026
  • Everything was done in-house, from setting up plinths to styling the products.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 18 July 2024
  • It was bolted to a tall plinth, lit up at night, fenced off and adjacent to a busy state highway.
    — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2023
  • In the room’s center is a hot stone plinth heated from the inside, with a small pipe that provides steam.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 19 July 2018
  • The pipes guests sat on during the runway show have since become plinths for jewelry.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Sunk into the ground at the base of each tree was a small concrete plinth to which was affixed a tiny copper name tag.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • The plaque was pried off a large plinth about a year after it was installed, according to police.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The plinth is a solid chunk of MDF, and the platter is a heavy steel one.
    — Brad Moon, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The protesters tied rope around the bronze statue of Colston and pulled it down from its plinth.
    — CNN, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Once on the roof deck, it was mounted on a four-foot box with a plinth on top that allows the art to rotate on an axel.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Slowly, my vision expands to include the gray-veined white marble plinth on which the throne rests.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Nas wondered aloud to me if the big move catalyzed her problem — and their grandmother was the plinth of their lives.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Yet the more powerful symbol may be the empty stone plinth the soldiers left behind.
    — The Economist, 20 Mar. 2021
  • More evocative than an empty plinth, the site has become a place for activists and locals to gather.
    — The Economist, 16 June 2020
  • The black metal wood stove is a welcome addition to this space, sitting on a plinth of that same friendly grey.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 19 July 2023
  • Get the look by heaping green apples, limes, pine cones, and coordinating gourds in a bowl or on a plinth.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Concrete plinths supporting the tracks had begun to crack, as had portions of the tunnel’s bench wall.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In the video, the man steps onto the plinth that holds the Cube and pushes it forward, shattering the work.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Models of architectural and design details sit on a large plinth in the middle of the gallery.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Aware of that status, Northam’s office still plans to take down the metal statue — though the fate of its stone plinth is an open question.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020

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