Example sentences for: likenesses

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

  • But the only way the public has of relating to these items is to gasp at them and applaud them, swoon over them and deplore them, laugh at them and compare them--and it's not even the clothes that evoke these responses, it's their likenesses transmitted by the media.

  • Small porcelain likenesses of canal houses look pretty in the windows of houses and hotels.

  • So we have a man's tongue "grey as the foot of a goose"; a catfish "the size of a boar hog"; a man who gets ready to take a blow "like a cowed dog"; a night as dark "as the inside of a cow"; an old man whose dugs "hung down like those on a sow hog"--an entire farmyard of likenesses.

  • De Wit worked from likenesses of actual monarchs to produce his portraits.


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