Example sentences for: engravings

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

  • The first stone engravings found in the Canary Islands were discovered here in the 18th century, and the ten natural cave dwellings, with their magnificent rock engravings, were the home to the Benahoritas — the ancient settlers of Benahoare, the original aboriginal name for La Palma.

  • Most of the millions of books, engravings, and ancient manuscripts it has accumulated over the centuries have been transferred to the new national library on the Left Bank (see page 58).

  • Old engravings show draped, enveloping clothes for Muslim women that are not very different from ancient Greek and Roman women's clothes or early medieval clothes and that are, in fact, similar to early forms of peasant women's clothing all over eastern Europe.

  • The occasion was Cornell's discovery of a curious box by Max Ernst, La femme cent têtes , that consists of collages made out of snipped and pasted cuttings from 19 th century engravings, fitted wickedly together to form a semipornographic narrative.

  • Evoking superbly an artistic and personal biography of the 20th-century master, the museum displays over 200 paintings, 158 sculptures, and hundreds of drawings, engravings, ceramics, and models for stage sets and costumes drawn from the artist’s personal collection.


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