bas-relief
Example Sentences
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Man Ray also built ingenious collages, bas-relief constructions and elegant chess sets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
As The Times reported in 1989, the giant bas-relief figures on the venue’s exterior are of the Maya god Huitzilopochtli seated on a symbolic earth monster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
They include an imposing obelisk outside Rome's Olympic stadium that bears his name, and a bas-relief of Mussolini in the modernist Eur district that the fascists built to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their march.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2022
Through various media, including drawings, film, and bas-relief, Mr. Abdessemed evokes war, displacement and devastation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
In one thin arm, threaded with veins in a kind of senescent bas-relief, was a basket.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
