Sentence examples for medal up from inspiring English sources

Under the law that created the medal, up to 12 recipients may be chosen each year.

As she departed, Holland was asked whether she would be putting the medal up in the house they share together.

For work on promoting French art in Britain under this scheme, in 2008 she was made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and pinned the medal up on her bedroom wall, alongside her Brunswick card and pictures of her children.

His grandson now put his medal up for auction and it sold at Anderson and Garland for £4,000.

Bill Shephard, who returned in 2009 from serving in Iraq, put his Army medal up for bid on eBay to help support his wife and three young children.

"I knew there was a medal up for grabs tonight and I just got overanxious.

Now the Brits are tipped to bring home perhaps 23 medals, up from 15 in Atlanta.

9.30am onwards: wheelchair fencing There are four medals up for grabs today in the fencing.

11am onwards: judo There are four medals up for grabs in the judo today, with quarter-finals from 11am and finals from 5.30pm.

There are four medals up for grabs, with Venezuela's Naomi Soazo is the favourite in the women's under-63kg – her gold in Beijing was the first ever Paralympic medal for her country.

The Paralympics opens on Friday in Pyeongchang in what will be the largest winter Games to date, with 240 medals up for grabs and North Korea making its debut, part of a wider cooling of tensions.