alabaster

Example Sentences

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Limestone, marble and alabaster are among the most solid materials employed by artists, yet Deborah Reichmann sees them as endlessly mutable.

From Washington Post

Ms. van Seenus — with her alabaster skin, haunting blue eyes and more shapely physique — conveyed a different sensibility.

From New York Times

Here he is a few weeks later in Bhutan, soaking in an alabaster monastery on a gorgeous November day.

From The Verge

Nearby, the Marble Faun shapes limestone and alabaster into intricately frilled but only tenuously figurative shapes.

From New York Times

We meandered through the exhibits to Egypt’s ancient rulers — once-powerful pharaohs, now trapped inside granite sarcophagi and alabaster jars filled with their mummified guts.

From New York Times