Example sentences for: frieze

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

  • The Guardian of London fronted a report Monday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has "categorically ruled" that the 2,500-year-old sculptures from the frieze of the Parthenon in Athens--known in Britain as the "Elgin Marbles"--should not be returned to Greece.

  • The scooped-out city canyon, embellished with a frieze of human heads at the bottom (, 1915), was a theme that looked new in the work of Gary Winogrand in the 1960s.

  • Its two lower stories have a remarkable carved frieze representing scenes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics.

  • In the apse there’s a moving mosaic of the Madonna above a frieze of the 12 Apostles.

  • The life of the Buddha from birth to the attainment of nirvana is illustrated in an intricately carved frieze running around the pagoda walls and the sides of the cave.


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