STATUE in a Sentence

Learn STATUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

91 example sentences for STATUE, such as:

1. The statue has a solid concrete base.
2. The statue was removed to another site.
3. The statue survived through minus a leg.
4. A small crowd attempted to pull down a statue.
5. The statue was carved out of a single piece of stone.

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 Meanings and Examples of STATUE
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statue
 n.  sculpture representing a human or animal
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring to make a movement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
2  Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, which is waiting to be put away somewhere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
3  Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried off by a large ball.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
4  There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into granite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
5  The column of Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore on high the statue of a people.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
6  The Brutus who killed Caesar was in love with the statue of a little boy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
7  This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
8  There stood on the great square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; this statue represented Episthates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
9  One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching onward.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
10  He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
11  The young girl is only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
12  But at the sight of the young man, who detached himself from the wall like a statue walking from its niche, and at the noise of the steps which she heard resound behind her, Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
13  Her lips were cold; it appeared to d'Artagnan that he had embraced a statue.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
14  On seeing this figure, mute and immovable as a statue, Milady was frightened.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 45 A CONJUGAL SCENE
15  No voice replied to hers; the carriage continued to roll on with rapidity; the officer seemed a statue.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 49 FATALITY
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  The statue has a solid concrete base.
2  Some of the guns were melted down and used to help build a statue.
3  Archaeological evidence may help to establish the authenticity of the statue.
4  The statue shows King Richard in full stature beside his horse.
5  They decided to perpetuate the memory of their leader by erecting a statue.
6  The statue survived through minus a leg.
7  The statue of the emperor became an object of devotion.
8  He rough-hewed a statue out of a block of jade rapidly but then polished it slowly over a long period.
9  The statue was carved out of a single piece of stone.
10  A small crowd attempted to pull down a statue.
11  The statue will remain in the museum for the foreseeable future.
12  The statue was removed to another site.
13  That crook wanted to chisel me out of a hundred dollars when he sold me that "marble" statue he'd cut out of some cheap hunk of rock.
14  A garden statue of Buddha was in a light finish approximately 110 cm high and 54 cm by 50 cm wide.
15  Judging by the patina on this bronze statue, we can conclude that this is the work of a medieval artist.