Example sentences for: mannequins

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

  • Posed groups of commissars, meanwhile, display collective warmth in the way that department-store mannequins do when they are grouped on the same pedestal.

  • Mannequins were nameless, their standard good looks as uninteresting as possible, their erotic selves effaced.

  • For a version of Johns' White Flag (1955-1958) had already appeared in the window of Bonwit Teller, in 1956, as a background for two mannequins displaying the latest in ladies' suits, and no one seems to have called in the FBI.

  • Possibly mannequins (fashion models) can be considered cat-like when they promenade, cat-footed , confident in moving down the catwalk at a fashion show evoking no catcalls from the audience (unless the designs fail to be to the viewers' liking), eliciting catty remarks, turning the show into a catastrophe .

  • The Met's and Boston Museum of Fine Arts' "John Singleton Copley in America" (at the Milwaukee Art Museum through Aug. 25) intersperses the art with colonial furniture, silver (including a Paul Revere teapot similar to the one in Copley's famous portrait), and costumed mannequins "suggesting the coherence of Copley's work in the cultural environment of pre-Revolutionary Boston and New York."


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