Example sentences for: life-sized

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

  • The life-sized (and slightly larger) infantrymen, archers, officers, and their horses symbolically guard the tomb of the first Qin emperor.

  • Most impressive is the ancient wooden Temple of the Holy Mother (Shengmudian), with life-sized statues reflecting a real humanity, rather than the customarily formal Buddhist imagery.

  • Don’t be misled: bunraku is theater for adults rather than children, using the same dramatic themes, stories, and conventions as in noh and kabuki but achieving a unique impact with the almost life-sized, colorfully costumed puppets.

  • "Thanks to Gielgud and fellow Brits, museum-goers 'from ages 5 to 105' won't be able to attend the 'Hands on History: The British Aristocracy' exhibit, which encouraged attendees to examine life-sized models of past sovereigns and then hypothesize which members of the royal family might have been syphilitic."

  • The movingly simple Peace Memorial Museum documents the horror with charts, models, photographs, videos, everyday objects transformed by the unimaginable heat of the blast, and a life-sized diorama portraying horribly burned victims.


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