Mantel in a sentence as a noun

The mantel of the planet is molten rock, and can be treated as a viscous fluid.

Thermal power has been used for small mantel clocks before, but it has not been done before at this scale.

Samsung came along, took up the mantel, and then rebranded the project to Tizen.

For the past couple of years, AOL has been a place where companies go to die. Will Verizon pick up that mantel and continue offering the much needed "Death with Dignity" service for waning tech companies?

I don't know that I necessarily want tactical nukes over the mantel but isn't that what it would actually take to balance things out at this point?

Building a scale model of the Eiffel Tower out of toothpicks would be somewhat more rewarding as you'd have the tower for your mantel afterward.

Yet Ceres and Vesta are entire worlds, with internal differentiation into a core, mantel, and crust, and complex surface features such as faults and perhaps even volcanoes.

"Growing up, my parents had a little display case on the mantel with a piece of the Berlin wall on it."Two decades later, I'm still kicking myself for not buying a piece when I had the chance.

His first email to employees, sent just after he assumed the CEO mantel on earlier this year, was filled with bombastic and false platitudes:ā€¯mantel: a beam, stone, or arch serving as a lintel to support the masonry above a fireplacemantle: a figurative cloak symbolizing preeminence or authority the mantle of leadership>

Mantel definitions

noun

shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"

See also: mantelpiece mantle mantlepiece chimneypiece