Example sentences for: graven

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

  • 2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

  • The rabbi's son, evidently responding to the Jewish injunction against graven images, beat up Soutine, then paid a reparation of 25 rubles toward Soutine's education.

  • A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.

  • "Graven images.

  • At the end of Whitney's film, Avedon is heard musing on his relationship to Judaism, a religion that regards graven images as sinful.


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