graven

Example Sentences

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Those included condemnation of just the sort of graven imagery his son would later master for the Church of Rome and its royal cohorts in Habsburg Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021

Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.

From The Verge • Feb. 4, 2019

Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2017

Mr. Shannon’s graven face, which looks carved from hard stone, registers little feeling as Carter spits questions and exhortations at Vinnie through barely parted lips.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2013

Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien