Example sentences for: statues

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

  • In addition to dozens of novice monks in training, this large temple is famous for its Ming- and Qing-era statues and bronzes, carved stone tablets, bells, paintings, and incense burners.

  • The lovely 13th-century pink Verona marble baptistery has superbly sculpted doors by Benedetto Antelami, who also carved most of the 12 statues of the months in the interior.

  • Doric Hall displays portraits and statues of Abraham Lincoln and John Adams.

  • She, too, is deified and in a façade of six colossi 111/2 m (38 ft) high stands at equal height to her husband — a very rare honor for a consort in Egypt — though his statues outnumber hers by 2:1, a more subtle indication of his supreme power.

  • Michelangelo’s tomb (right aisle, second bay) was designed by Vasari, with symbolic statues of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture mourning beneath a bust of the Florentine-born artist who died at 89.


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