Example sentences for: bronzes

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

  • 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.

  • Looking at them was like looking at ancient Etruscan bronzes or Renaissance enameled boxes.

  • The light that bronzes everyone else burns poor, pasty Ripley.

  • 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 ancient bronzes are covered with metamorphosing animal shapes--an elephant whose trunk has turned into a dragon, and whose legs are incised with tigers ("stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over," as Whitman wrote of himself).


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