Example sentences for: bronzes

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

  • Look for fine Chinese bronzes, embroidery, lacquerware and porcelain, tomb figures, and wood carvings, among other possibilities.

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

  • 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).

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


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