Example sentences for: likeness

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

  • Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel believes the closest likeness may be a death mask most other scholars think is a fake.

  • There is a marble statue of Julius Caesar, consort of Queen Cleopatra, who spent many months here, and a bust of Alexander, which was carved in his likeness after his death.

  • Publications receiving a score of 10 will be inducted into the Indis Hall of Fame . Publications that get all the way up to 20 will be faxed a likeness of Joseph Stalin.

  • The name Colosseum , now usually taken to refer to its size, originally referred to the fact that the amphitheater was built adjacent to a huge statue (a colossus ) of the sun god that had been commissioned by Nero, allegedly in his own likeness.

  • Alas, it was not long before the shadow of a certain Adolf fell over Europe: Hittli was so near to Hitler that the likeness became, for an immigrant, decidedly uncomfortable.


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