statuette

Example Sentences

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"I've already dusted off the shelf for it," he told AFP in January, referring to the golden statuette that he ended up taking.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

Academy librarian Margaret Herrick is said to have remarked that the golden statuette resembled her uncle Oscar.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

He carried a solid-gold money clip shaped like an Oscar statuette.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

In accepting the award from presenter Tom Hanks, Lee quoted one of the best known “Brokeback” lines while staring at the statuette: “Wow, I wish I knew how to quit you.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

Everything was hodgepodge: grandmotherly lamps stood next to El Greco reproductions; bull’s horns hung from the neck of an Aphrodite statuette.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides