statuette
Example Sentences
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Upon accepting her Oscar for supporting actress for the film, the nine-months pregnant Saint kissed the statuette and joked, “I may have the baby right here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
We even tried replacing our Ganesh statuette, whose trunk was facing left, with one whose trunk faced right to bring us better luck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
But the company never received the statuette, finding the package it was posted in empty upon its arrival four days later.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
German airline Lufthansa on Friday said it had apologised to Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin for losing his Oscar statuette after US airport security banned him from taking it on a flight from New York.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
She could not find, between herself and the African statuette, or totem pole, on which he gazed with such melancholy wonder, any point of contact.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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