SCULPTURE in a Sentence

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For SCULPTURE, below is one of 30 sentences:
Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCULPTURE
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sculpture
 n.  statue; creating figures or designs in three dimensions
Classic Sentence:
1  Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is all wrong.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
3  Two large orange-trees, now fragrant with blossoms, threw a delicious shade; and, ranged in a circle round upon the turf, were marble vases of arabesque sculpture, containing the choicest flowering plants of the tropics.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
5  What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  It may be that the primal source of all those pictorial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
7  The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every conceivable avocation of man, were prefigured ages before any of them actually came into being.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
8  Over the head of the bed was an alabaster bracket, on which a beautiful sculptured angel stood, with drooping wings, holding out a crown of myrtle-leaves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  The graceful bamboo lounges were amply supplied with cushions of rose-colored damask, while over them, depending from the hands of sculptured figures, were gauze curtains similar to those of the bed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Tom teaches sculpture at the local art school.
2  All the parts of the sculpture have to be welded together.
3  What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
4  This concept has been applied successively to painting, architecture and sculpture.
5  The plastic arts include sculpture, pottery and painting.
6  Major works of painting, sculpture, mosaic and architecture were examined in situ in Venice.
7  The place is stuffed with whacky memorabilia like a sculpture of the Seven Dwarfs that Walt Disney gave to Debbie Reynolds.
8  A significant exhibition of contemporary sculpture will be on view at the Portland Gallery.
9  Fine Arts is a generic term for subjects such as painting, music and sculpture.
10  She has built these scraps of metal into a sculpture.
11  The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
12  A small urban park in the downtown area has been hosting innovative contemporary sculpture installations since 1981.
13  The next stop on the trek is an art museum in which you use your hands to get a feel for a sculpture's shape.
14  The heat will deform the plastic sculpture.
15  The museum's main gallery is reserved for the sculptures.