How to Use medallion in a Sentence

medallion

noun
  • My first idea was to put a gold medallion on the bottle!
    Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
  • This is the first time the medallion has been hidden at Bruce Vento.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The value of the medallion collapsed, and cabdrivers were left holding the bill.
    Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Herff Jones and Jostens both offered the same price for a basic cap, gown and medallion, $44, but the price wasn’t on the Herff Jones website.
    Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2021
  • By 2018, the price of a medallion was less than two hundred thousand dollars.
    Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Go big with a gold chain-link necklace or err on the classic side with a simple medallion.
    Charlotte Diamond, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2023
  • All finishers get a Boston Light Swim medallion, a T-shirt, and a lei.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • But the mayor hasn’t acknowledged the pleas of medallion drivers who say his plan is not enough.
    NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • In order to drive a taxi in New York, a worker must obtain a permit known as a taxi medallion.
    Sean Sirota, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Giving the medallion to Holocaust survivors with fewer ties to USC is a shift.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Inside the 10 mazes scattered throughout the park, frightful guests are on their own: The medallion will not be honored there.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Taxi drivers who saved for years to buy medallions and knew the roads of their cities inside and out suffered the same fate, Merchant argues.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The inscription is inside a round medallion framed by two black lines of tesserae.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2022
  • When the woman opened her wallet, the suspect took all the cash and grabbed a gold medallion necklace from around her neck, then got out of the vehicle.
    Matt Bruce, ajc, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Garth, who is seen wearing his medallion in the photo, was inducted in 2012.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Creams and pale timber tones in the structure’s latticework were picked up in the classic medallion chairs as well as the soft light of the chandeliers.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 22 Apr. 2023
  • In 2016, the art school honored the Crafts with a commemorative bronze medallion.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Stained-glass medallions of swimming seahorses stretch from the landing of a grand staircase up three flights.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 4 Aug. 2023
  • All three finalists receive a small medallion, known as a challenge coin, and a framed print of their poem.
    Danny Freedman, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The trophy is a brass bell bearing a Big Ten medallion suspended from a wooden frame.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2021
  • New York’s medallion program was once meant to be a way for drivers to buy, operate and profit from their own cabs.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Things that are old that have ornate detail, like borders that have been hand-etched out of wood or old light fixtures that have medallions at the top of the ceiling.
    Gina Mayfield, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • There's a medallion in the center and a detailed border, all slightly distressed because of the overdyed technique.
    Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 24 July 2023
  • Owens treats the swordfish like a steak, so slice each swordfish medallion or steak and set them together upright on the yogurt.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Murphy has the jacket unzipped to his navel, inviting you to take in the chained medallion that decorates his hairless chest.
    New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the medallion loans required payments of up to three thousand dollars per month.
    Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Each medallion comes in a clear, plastic protective case in a foam lined box and is about 32 mm in diameter.
    Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Every tour that goes through Farmington stops at the medallion and goes by the spring house, which was a slave dwelling, Nichols said, to make sure the fact that enslaved people worked the land is not overlooked.
    Dima Ansari, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The sale has even more deals on runners, including this colorful fringe rug with a medallion design that's on sale for $38.
    Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The comeback was fueled by Okoro, who took over on defense late and proudly walked around the locker room with that shiny new gold medallion around his neck.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 27 Feb. 2022

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