Example sentences for: effigies

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

  • The effigies of Ferdinand and Isabella lie on the right-hand side of the chancel, with those of their daughter Juana La Loca and her husband Felipe El Hermoso on the slightly higher monument on the left.

  • Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.

  • Nearer the port, a passage leads to the Museu de Cera (Wax Museum), a tourist trap with a collection of some three hundred realistic wax effigies.

  • In the transept, about 30 m (100 ft) apart, are the tombs of Pedro I and Inês de Castro, their effigies facing each other and surrounded by attendant angels.

  • The boxes and the collages are monuments to abstract affairs with flesh-and-blood women whom Cornell's psychology required him to flatten into paper effigies so that his imagination could go to work.


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