Example sentences for: life-size

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

  • The museum’s highlight is a life-size, sixth-century b.c. terracotta sculpture of a reclining couple that was used as the lid of a sarcophagus.

  • Getting little attention is 16th-century Bandinelli’s clumsy Hercules and Cacus, standing as it does in the shadow of Michelangelo’s magnificent David; this life-size copy was placed here in 1873.

  • She is the life-size replica of a real ship completed in 1748, but more than this, The Amsterdam has a “press-ganged” crew to man her.

  • Nashville has its own failed attempt at a symbolic structure: None of you referred to the life-size model of the Parthenon located in Centennial Park (or to the life-size model of a Jew, so beloved by school children, in the city's Natural History Museum.

  • The Accademia’s uncontested star, the great David (which once stood in the Piazza della Signoria, now substituted by a life-size copy), provides the perfect object lesson of the finished product, a hero infused with all the contained energy needed to hurl that stone at Goliath.


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