Example sentences for: reliefs

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

  • Here are Licchavi stone reliefs of Shiva and Parvati from the fifth and sixth centuries, the classical period of sculpture.

  • In the next courtyard, the Mul Chowk, there are two outstanding examples of 17th-century Newari metalwork, tall bronze reliefs of the goddesses Ganga (standing on a crocodile) and Jamuna (standing on a tortoise).

  • Reliefs carved on Ramses’ thrones depict the Nile gods, and in a niche between the two central colossi is a small statue to the god Ra-Herekhty (Ra the sun god combined with Horus) with whom Ramses shares the temple.

  • His tomb has good wall reliefs protected by glass screens.

  • Guides often point out one wall from which two classic reliefs were chiseled in 1935 “by a Chinese curio dealer bribed by an American.”


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