Example sentences for: bronzes

How can you use “bronzes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In addition to dozens of novice monks in training, this large temple is famous for its Ming- and Qing-era statues and bronzes, carved stone tablets, bells, paintings, and incense burners.

  • The two bronzes were presented in the mid-17th century by the Dutch government, in gratitude for the special exemption that gave them exclusive trading privileges with Japan during the period of national seclusion.

  • The Luoyang Museum, housed in a Ming Dynasty temple, contains the fossil of an elephant tusk half-a-million years old, Stone Age pottery, Shang bronzes, and glazed Tang ceramic figures.

  • The latter includes Rodin bronzes, Picasso ceramics, Matisse’s Madonna sketches, and designs for ecclesiastical robes and, rather unexpectedly, a grotesque Francis Bacon pope.

  • Rooms 36–39 have a collection of bronzes including votive offerings found at the Idaean Cave in Crete — mythical birthplace of the god Zeus.


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