Sentence examples for medal from high-quality English sources.

• Recipients of this medal can add G.M. after their names.

• Davy Medal For an outstanding researcher in the field of chemistry.

• When he called his friend to ask about the medal, Hogue denied that he had it.

• He will also have another chance at securing a medal when he competes in the Queen's Prize Individual on Wednesday and Thursday, which culminates in a medal event on Saturday.

• Bakerian Medal and Lecture The premier lecture in physical sciences.

• Buchanan Medal For distinguished contributions to the biomedical sciences.

• She accepted a Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, and in 2015 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• Maya Angelou was awarded the National Medal of Arts (2000) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2010).

Use medal in a sentence.

• The first medal by an Irishman came in 1896, when John Boland won a gold medal in tennis for Great Britain.

• In the United States the two most important prizes for children’s literature are the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott Medal.

• The premier medals are awarded annually and include the Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific medal still awarded today.

• He was also a member of the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay team that captured a gold medal; he rounded out his medal haul in Beijing with bronzes in both the 200- and 400-metre IM.

• Tennis player Monica Puig won Puerto Rico’s first gold medal, and weightlifter Sara Ahmed took bronze in the 69-kg weight class to become the first female from Egypt to win an Olympic medal.

• In individual Olympic events, the award for first place is a gold (silver-gilt, with six grams of fine gold) medal, for second place a silver medal, and for third place a bronze medal.

• The army medal has always been awarded solely for valour in combat, but the navy medal could be, and was, awarded for noncombat purposes such as lifesaving, although since 1942 it has been awarded only for combat.

• There was also a neat touch in the fact that Norway was able to top the medal table with 39 medals – and 14 golds – thanks to Marit Bjørgen’s gold medal on the 30km cross-country skiing in the final event of these Games.

medal sentence examples

• In Alpine skiing Franz Klammer (Austria) won the demanding downhill, and Rosi Mittermaier (West Germany), who had never won a major downhill event, captured the women’s gold medal; she also won the slalom and received the silver medal in the giant slalom.

• “Having 30,000 looking so happy and proud and just celebrating our medal … it’s not only our medal, we feel like the medal belongs to the whole nation and the next generation, all the young girls that really, really looked up to us and have us as role models because that’s what it’s all about and hopefully will get more girls to start playing football.”

• Among Gehry’s many awards are the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989), the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture (1992), the National Medal of the Arts (1998), the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (1999), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016).

• Wallace received several awards, including the Royal Society of London’s Royal Medal (1868), Darwin Medal (1890; for his independent origination of the origin of species by natural selection), Copley Medal (1908), and Order of Merit (1908); the Linnean Society of London’s Gold Medal (1892) and Darwin-Wallace Medal (1908); and the Royal Geographical Society’s Founder’s Medal (1892).