statue
Example Sentences
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“I was covered with mud dried like a cast. They said I looked like a mud statue,” Venus remembered.
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The city grabbed international attention in 2001, when the Sunni Pashtun Taliban authorities destroyed two large Buddha statues cherished by the predominantly Shia Hazara community in the region.
From Barron's
Elsewhere in the salon, we find statues of Artemis and Pallas Athena, a relief of Pan, and painted scenes of dancing figures.
The corridor was flanked on both sides by marble statues of creatures: nymphs and dryads, armed centaurs, a unicorn.
From Literature
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I stroke the cold, stone ears of the statue.
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