noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
laurel
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She was wearing black with a black straw hat with a deep brim like a laurel wreath .
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I can see it now: In toga and laurel wreath , Big Al will give the thumbs up or thumbs down.
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The sight of Bobbie Fieldfare, in toga and laurel wreath as one of the assassins, had been too much.
■ VERB
lay
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He had gone there to lay a wreath on every visit since.
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Clinton laid a wreath of red and white roses before a majestic memorial at Piskaryevskoye Cemetery.
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He was speaking after laying a wreath on the spot where the protestors died.
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David C.. Bolles, eldest son of Don Bolles, helped her lay a wreath at the foot of the monument.
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Charles, who laid wreaths in Hong Kong yesterday, played polo on her birthday in July.
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Take Chancellor Adenauer, in 1970, at the site of the former Warsaw ghetto, laying a wreath .
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This year, and for years to come, they will walk hand-in-hand to lay a wreath at Suzanne's grave.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although it is July, the house has a Christmas wreath hung in its picture window.
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Doris Allen of San Francisco arrived wearing a silver silk floral wreath atop her head.
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He sits on the grass lacing stiff boots into a wreath of effort and breath.
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Miss Lofthouse had taken the wreaths from the Memorial.
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Okra pods also can be dried and used on holiday wreaths, or picked on stems and used in dried floral displays.
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The survivors joined them a few minutes later, leaving their own wreaths and flowers.
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There was my wreath , and a lot of flowers from Margaret, and another wreath from Doreen.
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There were piles of bad-taste wreaths around and sickly tremolo organ music.