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How to use alabaster in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, adjective

Alabaster means a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally. Example: “The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.”

Examples of alabaster by meaning

nounA fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

  • One of the striking relics found at the tomb, was a Canopic portrait head of Queen Tii, made entirely of alabaster except the eyes and eyebrows, which were inlaid lapis lazuli and osidian.1915 May 15, “Egyptian Antiquities for Metropolitan”, in The New York Times (PDF), archived from the original on 14 Sep 2015

nounA sculpture executed in alabaster.

  • His alabasters are certainly very estimable; but those to whom we owe them were not skilled virtuosi, and if they acquitted themselves of their task honourably, they only produced ordinary work.2021 March 27, G. Maspero, Egyptian Art, Otbebookpublishing, →ISBN

adjectiveMade of alabaster.

  • The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
  • An enameled miniature of Christ is set in the center of a jeweled alabaster paten, the plate that holds the bread during Communion services.1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 41

adjectiveResembling alabaster; white, pale, smooth, translucent.

  • An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.

More sentences with alabaster

  • An alabaster white seagull standing atop a litterbin is bending to pull a chipshop carrierbag from within.2013, Sam Smith, chapter 21, in Marraton, Beaworthy, Devon: Indigo Dreams Publishing, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry carrierbag
  • January is when most dwellers are seriously starting to look rather Voldemortesque avec alabaster lustre.2012, Karen De Villiers, "In the leaving", The South African, Issue 445, 10 January 2012 - 16 January 2012, page 6. From the entry Voldemortesque
  • A small dot of blood, red as a Valentine’s rose, bloomed against her alabaster skin.2005, Gregory Maguire, One Final Firecracker, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry Valentine's
  • Dawn Reynolds was an eighteen-year-old alabaster beauty with cobalt eyes and the figure of a ripe voluptuary.2004, Martin Torgoff, “Everybody Must Get Stoned”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry voluptuary
  • Alabaster, a Chinese village elder said he had investigated the history of the Ngai family.1927 August 19, “CHINESE INHERITANCE CASE.”, in Hongkong Daily Press, number 21,562, Hong Kong, →OCLC, page 5, column 2. From the entry Tsat Tsz Mui
  • Let the lacrimatories be carved from jade and alabaster to be filled with the tears of those who bury the dead.2001, Anthony Russell White, “For the Last One”, in CB Follett, Susan Terris, editors, Runes: A Review of Poetry, Sausalito, Calif.…. From the entry lacrimatory
  • The owner's piety is suggested by an image of the Blessed Mary in alabaster and another of St.1921, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Great Britain: Royal Historical Society. From the entry pauncher
  • An impenetrable ten-sided monolith, the never-realized structure was to be made of alabaster, with an astronomical tower and a spiraling internal staircase.2023 July 27, Emily LaBarge, “A Strange, but Elegant, Artistic Match”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry sided
  • Here is skeleton is in place, an alabaster bowl lies between the face and the knees, and a slate palette over that.1914, W[illiam] M[atthew] Flinders Petrie, “The Valley Cemetery”, in Tarkhan II (British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian…. From the entry jar
  • There were statues of shimmering ice, which stood unmeltably, and flowering trees fashioned of noble metals and precious gems, and fountains of colored smoke which jetted from bowls of alabaster.2018, Lin Carter, Kellory the Warlock. From the entry unmeltably

Meaning of alabaster

  1. noun A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
  2. noun A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
  3. noun A sculpture executed in alabaster.

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Questions about alabaster in a sentence

How do you use alabaster in a sentence?
Alabaster is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.”
What is a short sentence with alabaster?
“An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.”
What does alabaster mean?
Alabaster means a fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

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