Example sentences for: skulls

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

  • This is Shiva in his “destroyer” outfit, fanged and bedecked with skulls.

  • I'd visited the museum several times, but learned about the skulls only recently from a friend.

  • An artist who takes a bite out of his own painting, and who derives his subject matter from a dream, is, in some sense, a private artist; and the later work, as Varnedoe has organized it, suggests an increasing absorption in a personal vocabulary composed of body parts; crosshatching patterns (an overworked motif of the 1970s); vases; clocks; skulls; specific borrowings from Duchamp, Picassso, Holbein, and a 16 th -century Grünewald altarpiece; little stick figures with bubble heads; and, in the most recent work, the image of a spiral galaxy.

  • In Max Beckmann's Still Life With Three Skulls (1945), the greenish skulls on the table look fresh--as indeed they were in that harrowing year--like not-quite-ripe fruit.

  • This 19th-century curiosity, like a similar chapel in the town of Évora farther north, is constructed of the skulls and bones of monks, unearthed from the friars’ cemetery.


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