marmoreal

Example Sentences

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A copse outside a mine stands “coated in a marmoreal haze.”

From New York Times

The familiar words—“I like your shoes”—almost escaped her notice, since the sky behind them was the same marmoreal gray as the ice.

From The New Yorker

I could see Celeste’s thin, wet jacket clinging to her like the marmoreal drapery on a statue.

From The New Yorker

Over the centuries, many art restorers and dealers felt obliged to vigorously scrub Greek and Roman objects, so as to enhance their marmoreal gleam—and their collectibility.

From The New Yorker

The marmoreal perfections of its verse seemed to reflect the grand façades of the Roman state itself: Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

From The New Yorker