Example sentences for: statues

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

  • The Fengxian cave shelters a 17-m (56-ft) Buddha, seated atop a thousand-petaled lotus and accompanied by lesser but equally brilliant statues of his disciples.

  • Lorenzo the Magnificent and brother Giuliano lie in simple tombs beneath the sculptor’s Madonna and Child, flanked by lesser artists’ statues of the family patron saints Cosmas and Damian.

  • But he also appreciated art in the form of obscure fountains in front of federal buildings, of the statues of Bolívar and George Washington and San Martin.

  • Destroyed at the end of the 14th century, its sand and brick still preserve the haunting outlines of a great city that stretched for a mile, with a Buddhist temple and headless statues at the center.

  • The gold-plated sedan chairs on the left-hand side of the temple were once used for transporting the statues of the temple’s gods in religious processions.


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