(n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.
Example Sentences:
(1) In pride of place above the fireplace sits a shot of his sons, alongside one of him interviewing Mandela and a US magazine cover which followed the marathon 1977 confrontation with Richard Nixon that earned him a place in history - and provided the subject matter for an award-winning play that will this year become a film starring Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon.
(2) On Monday Nicola Sturgeon stood in front of the same elegant Bute House fireplace where she had posed with Mrs May back in July and declared that the “brick wall of intransigence” over Brexit negotiations was forcing her to call a second independence vote.
(3) Interviews were conducted to determine: exposure to pets and to gases, vapours and dusts from hobbies; the use of gas stoves; fireplaces, air conditioners and humidifiers; type of heating systems; and the number of residents, and the number of smokers in the home.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Members of ANAL in front of a fireplace at the mansion.
(5) "The king of terror thing was something that Russell said about me," he says, "but people forget that The Girl In the Fireplace is Mills & Boon Doctor Who.
(6) The house is similar: full of happy, unapologetic chaos, it overflows with enthusiasms – music everywhere, books in all corners, baby clothes festooned across the kitchen fireplace – and the sense, children notwithstanding, of incipient freeform parties.
(7) If you have a fireplace you don't use, fit either a cap over your chimney pot (best done by a professional) or an inflatable chimney balloon.
(8) With a huge open fireplace in the middle of the dining room, this is a where to come for "carne alla griglia" – huge T-Bone steaks, veal and lamb chops, spit-roasted rabbit, chicken and pork – expertly prepared by the genial owner, Derio Vezzier.
(9) The Chelsea football club owner’s spectacular £724m vessel, which made headlines last summer when it briefly moored on the river Clyde in Scotland, far from its usual cruising grounds, is believed to feature two swimming pools (one of which has an adjustable depth that allows it to be converted into a dancefloor), an exterior fireplace, a leisure submarine, armour plating, bulletproof windows, a missile defence system and an anti-paparazzi shield designed to dazzle digital cameras.
(10) "So having one of each colour will be really, really nice above the fireplace".
(11) Women spend considerable time near the fireplace, which serves both cooking and heating purposes and emits smoke from wood and other biomass fuel.
(12) There are so many empty buildings like this one in central London.” The building dates back to the 1820s and has numerous listed features including many ornate, hand-carved fireplaces.
(13) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).
(14) Surprisingly, so were wasp infestations through a fireplace (the landlord declined to fit a chimney cap), black mould from showering (sans window) and advice to use a bucket to catch a kitchen leak while the owner holidayed.
(15) At higher altitudes, ambient carbon monoxide levels are increasing with the number of residents and tourists and their use of motor vehicles and heating devices (such as fireplaces, furnaces, and stoves).
(16) The neat and tidy doubles have tasteful plush chocolate-coloured furnishings and polished wooden floors, while the more spacious deluxe rooms with wooden beams come with fireplaces and balconies with street views.
(17) There’s an excellent restaurant too, serving Andean and Creole home cooking in a cosy dining area with a fireplace and decorated with leather masks, local fabrics and ceramics.
(18) There’s a small living area with a crackling fireplace and the buffet breakfast is served at the communal table in the open-plan kitchen.
(19) The rooms are decorated with antique furniture, fireplaces and original wooden flooring for an authentic country house feel.
(20) Cottages have tiled floors, oak beams and big stone fireplaces.
Mantelpiece
Definition:
(n.) Same as Mantel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Born in 1943, I have no memory of him – he was simply a photo on a mantelpiece as I grew up, the only one of my relatives whose face has remained always unchanged for me.
(2) Although, of course, there is no other ending: that is why it's still on the mantelpiece.
(3) On the way out of his office, I look at the pictures on his mantelpiece – mum, dad, sister, maternal grandfather, and a woman holding a baby on her knee.
(4) The physical evidence of how much has changed since those days is 34cm tall, gold-plated and stands on the mantelpiece of Reznor's house in Beverly Hills.
(5) His paintings are on the wall, there are photographs of him and his siblings on the mantelpiece, literature about the case is stacked in piles.
(6) Then there is a lemon that was kept on the living room mantelpiece – for 40 years.
(7) Inside, on the mantelpiece, sits a brown envelope addressed to a nearby town.
(8) The first assignment invited you to share your images of mantelpieces – and we had some great submissions.
(9) He looks, at 77, like a Woody Allen action doll, so tiny and iconic you have to sit on your hands so as not to pick him up and put him on the mantelpiece.
(10) Has a window sill or a shelf become your mantelpiece?
(11) Share your favourite mantelpiece pictures by clicking the blue button on this page or downloading the phone app.
(12) It's not OK." Graef is clearly proud of his accomplishments (his mantelpiece is strewn with bronze Bafta statuettes) but the work he is most proud of is a recent series about Great Ormond Street children's hospital that followed medics as they made difficult, life-altering decisions.
(13) If there were awards for understatement, Tony's assertion would probably win Absolute yet another statuette to join the dozens already perched atop the boardroom mantelpiece.
(14) Has your mantelpiece become a place for collecting 'stuff'?
(15) Adding to the maintenance burden, the building is festooned with gargoyles and grotesques staring from the walls, including monkeys playing lutes and banging drums and a gentleman with a severe Victorian moustache, incongruously dressed in a loincloth, holding up the mantelpiece.
(16) Looking to explain their allure to the modern bookshop browser, one finds it, on the one hand, in that eternal aristocratic poise: a visitor to Chatsworth once remarked that the most stylish thing he had seen there was a signed photograph of John F Kennedy and his wife going yellow on the corner of the mantelpiece - the Devonshires were so unimpressed by this gift from the most powerful man in the world that they couldn't be bothered to frame it.
(17) She loves children, and various family photographs keep Elvis company on the mantelpiece.
(18) Designed more for mantelpieces and office shelves than imaginative playscapes, they range from Frank Lloyd Wright’s conveniently blocky Fallingwater to the arcing sails of the Sydney Opera House – which is formed almost entirely of bespoke components that can only be used in one way, taking most of the fun out of building it.
(19) But the plaque has pride of place on our mantelpiece!"
(20) A picture of a 19th-century gentleman with a magnificent beard hangs above the mantelpiece; I mistake him for Charles Darwin but am told he is the geologist and explorer, John Strong Newberry.