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• There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.From the entry miniature
• A mantelpiece clock with rackety balance wheel makes the only sound.2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, pages 13–14. From the entry balance wheel
• The ewer was on the mantelpiece, crowded today with white lilies and white mop-headed chrysanths.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry chrysanth
• He shrugged forbearingly, and stared at a framed photograph of Monsieur Cordier on the mantelpiece.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 142. From the entry forbearingly
• Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism, page 27. From the entry frontal
• From a little hand-bag he extracted his automatic pistol, which he put upon the mantelpiece.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry automatic
• From the mantelpiece, photographs of Zuleika surveyed the room with a possessive air.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry dimity
• A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.2017, Emily Carpenter, chapter 4, in The Weight of Lies, Seattle, Wash.: Lake Union Publishing, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry ticktock
• Over the mantelpiece is Banksyesque canvas which shows helmeted bobby and several CCTV and speed cameras staring out of the canvas.2012, Nicholas Gibbs, Writing Television Drama: Get Your Scripts Commissioned, John Murray Press, unnumbered page. From the entry Banksyesque
• There were ducks everywhere, on the desk and mantelpiece and padding around on the floor, knocking things over and quacking indignantly.2000, Tanya David; Dennis Pepper, comp., “Dogends”, in The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry hoover
• We might not have had that much to pinch, but they'd still have your brass candlesticks off the mantelpiece.2000, Gilda O'Neill, My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London. From the entry gas meter bandit
• He took a box of matches from the mantelpiece, struck a light and held it to the gas fire.1995, Robert Harris, Enigma, New York: Random House, Chapter 1, section 3, p. 19. From the entry strike a light
• He bought and framed Japanese prints, and she chose a bronze mantelpiece clock with a silver bell that struck on the half hour.2010, Stephanie Cowell, Claude & Camille, page 248. From the entry on the half hour
• He faddles over the needless, such as hanging maps up on the walls in the section and putting inkpots on the mantelpiece.1906, The Building News and Engineering Journal, volume 91, page 896. From the entry faddle
• A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no.…. From the entry one
• He rose from his knees, and walked slowly across to the mantelpiece, where he stood abstractedly fingering the ornaments, and straightening them—a trick of his when he was agitated.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 40. From the entry abstractedly

Meaning of mantelpiece

1. noun A shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.

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Questions about mantelpiece in a sentence

How do you use mantelpiece in a sentence?

Mantelpiece is used as a noun. For example: “There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.”

What is a short sentence with mantelpiece?

“A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.”

What does mantelpiece mean?

Mantelpiece means a shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.