Example sentences for: statues

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

  • And it's true: The models in Armani ads look like Greek statues.

  • It was inaugurated by the Prince of Wales in 1927, when stations were still built like Greek temples (Corinthian pillars, heroic statues, and ceramic-tiled ceilings); it is one last proud fanfare for the transcontinental railways that founded the country’s industrial prosperity.

  • However, elsewhere around Kathmandu, there are other stagnant ponds from which rise statues of Nagas; these ponds, too, are dedicated to the snake gods.

  • Beside the Piazza Venezia, a steep staircase leads up to the austere 13th-century Santa Maria in Aracoeli, while another, more graceful and gradual, takes you up between the statues of Castor and Pollux to Michelangelo’s beautifully proportioned square of the Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill).

  • According to Binalshibh, after returning to Afghanistan, muscle hijacker recruits fought on the front lines alongside the Taliban and participated in the March 2001 destruction of the giant Buddha statues in Bamian Province, Afghanistan.


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