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

She quotes Montaigne even more than Kalanithi does, but to her, he is not a marmoreal Great Writer, but a companion, the chatty, brilliant, worldly friend at her elbow.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2017

Heads, necks and arms are carried with marmoreal firmness, as if these dancers belonged in chokers, long white gloves and ostrich-feather tiaras.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2016

I beg your pardon,' he ended suddenly, resuming marmoreal attitude in his chair.

From Trent's Last Case by Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)