marmoreal

Example Sentences

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Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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 • Oct. 22, 2018

A few lesser-known names, including the intriguing Israeli painter Yigal Ozeri, hang cheek-by-jowl with marmoreal interiors and ghastly cityscapes.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2017

Consider St. John in his chilled marmoreal loveliness—“It is seldom, indeed, an English face comes so near the antique models.”

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

One was Basil, who, in the instant after alighting there, had fallen into an attitude of marmoreal ease as if he had been there from boyhood; he was smoking a cigar with a slow pleasure.

From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)