statuesque
Example Sentences
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The players, however, were reluctant to go without their statuesque cheering section.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Once again, it was weakness at set-pieces that proved fatal for West Ham as Dominguez met Elliot Anderson's corner with a looping header that dropped into the far corner while the Hammers defence stood statuesque.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
The statuesque candlesticks come in honey yellow and golden bronze, or choose the ribbed, three-wick candle for a more casual look on your coffee table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
Worse was to come two minutes later when Lisandro Martinez's routine long ball caught City's defence inexplicably statuesque.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2024
Dynamic and statuesque, thirty-eight years old, Fox was a ski patroller from Aspen, Colorado, who’d previously summitted two 8,000-meter peaks: Gasherbrum II in Pakistan, at 26,361 feet, and Everest’s 26,748-foot neighbor, Cho Oyu.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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