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).

  • Inside the temple is a small birthing chamber or mammisi, where carved reliefs depict Isis holding her new-born son Horus.

  • Under the canopy carved with Romanesque-Byzantine reliefs is the high altar, richly encased in elaborate, bejeweled, and enamelled plates of gold and silver.

  • Next door is the former Stock Exchange (now the country’s TV headquarters), a showy, eclectic building with some good reliefs.


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