statuary

It adorns an elaborate “Altar of Sin,” surrounded by classical statuary and shells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Is now really the time to contemplate celebrities flaunting borrowed diamonds and haute couture, delivering emotional speeches while clutching coveted statuary?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

Thankfully what was saved made a much longer list - including all the stained-glass windows, most of the statuary and artwork, and the holy relic known as the Crown of Thorns.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

In the last few years, Harvey turned to sculpting imaginary but mythic-seeming artifacts that exist as both 3-D printed statuary and glossy virtual models.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

I had a cousin who lived in Englewood, plenty of money there but gaudy rich, lots of lawn statuary, half the saints in the Gregorian calendar sticking out of the Ficus benjamina.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Lush landscaping, gardens and statuaries fill out the grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2020

Now I have a shelf in my office where all the statuaries are.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018

My Lord Dives's remains are in the family vault: the statuaries are cutting an inscription veraciously commemorating his virtues, and the sorrows of his heir, who is disposing of his goods.

From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Edinburgh Review never would have thought of asking, "Who reads a Russian book?" and England was satisfied with iron from Sweden without being impertinently inquisitive after her painters and statuaries.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge

And painters and statuaries, too, used to pray to these graces, and ask them to put beautiful fancies into their minds, that they might be able to paint beautiful pictures, and carve beautiful statues. 

From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley