Example sentences for: statues

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

  • In spite of the difficulties, tourists still head for this 2,000-year-old town to see China’s most magnificent ancient murals and painted statues.

  • Two hundred years ago, after Napoleon sent his army officers to explore the land and bring back the first hand-drawn impressions of half-buried statues and columns, the world couldn’t get enough.

  • Wander high above the city turmoil under the flying buttresses and around the statues (2,245 in all) and forest of pinnacles (135), up to the roof-ridge for an unbeatable view of the city.

  • The 17th-century Baroque Madonna del Voto Chapel (in the right transept) was designed by Bernini, whose statues of St. Jerome and Mary Magdalen flank the entrance.

  • During construction work at the start of the 15th century, the statues were thrown out in the yard, which was later filled in, and they remained there until excavated in 1974.


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