MEDAL in a Sentence

Learn MEDAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

39 example sentences for MEDAL, such as:

1. She is hoping to win the gold medal.
2. If u practice hard, u'll get a gold medal.
3. She overcame injury to win the Olympic gold medal.
4. He topped off his career with an Olympic gold medal.
5. The country bestowed its highest medal on the war hero.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEDAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
medal
 n.  a piece of metal in form of coin, given as a reward for a brave action, for winning a competition, or to remember a special event
Classic Sentence:
1  On his fourth trial he had been awarded a bronze medal.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
2  A dark medal of blood had formed itself near the man's head on the tessellated floor.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
3  They are beautiful because they are strong and every callus is a medal, Scarlett, every blister an award for bravery and unselfishness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Thus saying, Mrs. Sparsit, with her Roman features like a medal struck to commemorate her scorn of Mr. Bounderby, surveyed him fixedly from head to foot, swept disdainfully past him, and ascended the staircase.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
5  Now those noble golden coins of South America are as medals of the sun and tropic token-pieces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
6  the important men of the Indians by presenting medals, which.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  His bosom was loaded with medals, some in massive silver, and one or two even in gold, the gifts of various Christian potentates during the long period of his life.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
8  Rich plumes nodded above his head; wampum, gorgets, bracelets, and medals, adorned his person in profusion; though his dull eye and vacant lineaments too strongly contradicted the idle tale of pride they would convey.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
9  A young major just out of the army and covered over with medals he got in the war.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  If you want him defined, here he is: a prime, well-fed beast such as takes medals at the cattle shows, and nothing more, he said, with a tone of vexation that interested her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 3
11  He scrutinised the reverse of these living medals some five minutes, then pronounced sentence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  I have four medals for distinguished services; I have the rank of an officer and the standing of a gentleman; and I have three native languages.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
13  In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
14  This English woman, who had become a naturalized Parisienne, recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated later on in judicial accounts.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Winning the gold medal was yet another feather in her cap.
2  The country bestowed its highest medal on the war hero.
3  She is hoping to win the gold medal.
4  She had the strength and stamina to take the lead and win the gold medal.
5  She overcame injury to win the Olympic gold medal.
6  All the tipsters were wrong about the gold medal winner.
7  The year before last he won a gold medal, and the year before that he won a silver.
8  He topped off his career with an Olympic gold medal.
9  The mayor presented him with a gold medal at an official city reception.
10  Despite fierce competition she made a gallant effort to win the first medal of the championships.
11  A commemorative medal was struck in honour of the event.
12  His pride lies in the fact that he is the gold medal winner.
13  If u practice hard, u'll get a gold medal.
14  The school confers a medal on any student who is not absent a single day.
15  Grinning from ear to ear, Bonnie Blair was clearly elated by her fifth Olympic gold medal.