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• Pastel colors, platform shoes, babydoll dresses, sparkles, and heart and kiss motifs.2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry mood board
• Reactionary motifs are chic: Trump hats and “tradwife” frocks, monarchist and anti-feminist sentiments.2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry tradwife
• The themes and motifs of the prepper movement are having a moment in the mainstream.2020 March 21, Mark O’Connell, “This Is Not the End of the World and You Are Not a Prepper”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry prepper
• “A lot of people have already seen it, and recognize the subject, the motif of tree roots.2020 July 28, Nina Siegal, “A Clue to Van Gogh’s Final Days Is Found in His Last Painting”, in New York Times. From the entry hidden in plain sight
• Motifs are displayed above or below the line depending on strandedness.2015 April 23, Angad Garg, Bruce Futcher, Janet Leatherwood, “A new transcription factor for mitosis: in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the…. From the entry strandedness
• The style of the boardshort was not immune to fashion trends of color, motif, and cut.2014, Malie Moran, Attila Pohlmann, Andrew Reilly, Honolulu Street Style, Intellect, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry boardshort
• Hàn decoration is rich in geometric motifs, such as the zigzag, bands and lozenges.2012, C[harles] A[lfred] S[peed] Williams, Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through…. From the entry Hàn
• Some folks I know have the Black heritage Bible with the kente cloth motif all over it.2009, C. Nicole Treadwell, That Kiss From Heaven Fell On My Heart, page 218. From the entry blinger
• Yeast two-hybrid screening revealed that enigma binds to the insulin receptor (InsR) internalization motif.2007, Shiro Iuchi, Natalie Kuldell, Zinc Finger Proteins: From Atomic Contact to Cellular Function, page 101. From the entry enigma
• Bridget slipped into the room, which had been decorated with a Sesame Street motif.2005, Kevin O'Brien, The Last Victim, page 86. From the entry Sesame Street
• A nation on the move needed a space age motif to express its enthusiasm.2001, Frank A. Salamone, Popular culture in the fifties, page 142. From the entry space age
• Creative brilliance is the interpoint between the being of unique motif becoming the artist in refined design.2001, Don J. Feeney, Motifs : the transformative creation of self, page 120. From the entry interpoint
• The tritoned off-white, beige, and standard blue platform motif leaves a lot of room for improvement.2000, Dave Frattini, “Bay Ridge, Broadway, and the Sea Beach: The N and R Lines”, in The Underground Guide to New York City Subways, New…. From the entry tritoned
• Completing the decoration are stylized ataurique motifs distinguished by asymmetrical leaves.1992, Jerrilynn D Dodds (Ed.), Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, page 109. From the entry ataurique
• Almost all the fascist ideological motifs can be noticed in the structures of Stalinism and Ceaușism.1990, Lumea (issues 1-3, page 13). From the entry Ceaușism
• The motifs included relief images of human beings and animals, especially birds and human faces and heads.1987, Renbo Wang, “General Comments on Chinese Funerary Sculpture”, in The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the…. From the entry Luonan
• Three separate sets of gay shōchikubai motifs grow upward from the hem.1986, Reiko Mochinaga Brandon, Country Textiles of Japan: The Art of Tsutsugaki, Honolulu Academy of Arts, page 106. From the entry shōchikubai
• Dionne is a smooth, flattering conventional eyeshape with matching plastic sidepiece with metal Invicta motif.1986, Optometry Today, Vol. 26, Issues 9-25, p. 854. From the entry eyeshape
• Peace, security, the untroubled enjoyment of unproblematic Nature: such is the main motif of Constable's work.1983 April 25, Robert Hughes, “The Wordsworth of Landscape”, in Time. From the entry unproblematic
• What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11. From the entry skip rope
• Also absent from Kytherian pottery are a number of other motifs current in Cretan L.M.1973, Nicolas Coldstream, George Leonard Huxley, Kythera; Excavations and Studies Conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and…. From the entry Kytherian
• The walls themselves were gold and set with ikons and various religious motifs in bright hues.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 123. From the entry ikon
• Trees perhaps in the foreground — just budding — spring motif and morning motif.1924, H. G. Wells, The Dream. From the entry backgroundy
• This motif recurs further west, on and facing both sides of the scheme in spandrels SUNW2 and SCNE6.2020, Philippa Turner, Jane Hawkes, The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, C.800-C.1500, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry ecranche
• It is even possible that this bacchantic motif entered Ovid's tale via Sophocles' lost Tereus, though this is only conjecture.2018, J.P. Sullivan, Irene J.F. de Jong, Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature, page 274. From the entry bacchantic
• Comparison in chromosome location was based on kelch motif ACBPs.2015 July 9, Nadia Haingotiana Raboanatahiry et al., “Genome-wide identification and Phylogenic analysis of kelch motif containing ACBP in…. From the entry kelch
• Glycoproteins induced strong immune response during infection and antibody against a tyvelose motif on several secreted and surface glycoproteins in T.2015 August 20, “Partially Protective Immunity Induced by a 20 kDa Protein Secreted by Trichinella spiralis Stichocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry tyvelose
• It's possible to re-embroider motifs on fabric by sewing machine.2015, Mabel Van Niekerk, Embroider On Printed Fabrics. From the entry re-embroider
• As I noted earlier, the candelabra tree motif is one of the characteristic marginal decorations in Iberian Hebrew Bibles.2013, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Illuminating in Micrography: The Catalan Micrography, page 83. From the entry candelabra tree
• Before we forejudge that Palaima's aforementioned statement is wrong let us try to embed this motif into its original social context.2012, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Minoan Realities. From the entry forejudge
• Prosopomorphic lids made of processed and baked clay, stylized with motifs and astonishing artistic ornamentation discovered in Fafos.2012, Milot Berisha, Archaeological Guide of Kosovo, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2021, page 28. From the entry prosopomorphic
• It comes from two French words: rocaille, meaning the irregular rockwork used to decorate fountains and grottoes, and coquillage, shell motifs.2008 May 9, Wendy Moonan, “Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses”, in New York Times. From the entry rockwork
• The pairs of backward-diagonal traveling sissonnes (jumps from two legs to one) are another motif so accentuated as to become irresistible.2008 May 12, Alastair Macaulay, “City Ballet’s Itinerary: Robbins and Beyond”, in New York Times. From the entry sissonne
• So far he’s redecorated my apartment in the most awesome jungle motif, and we can wear each other's clothes.2007, Willow Kincaid, Tragic Hero: A Teacher Accused, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry ubersexual
• The scenes are connected more visually than causally, through repeated motifs and — the greatest weapon in Mr.2007 October 30, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times. From the entry irrealistic
• Apart from the arabesque motifs, geometric motifs are also applied by Malay craftsmen doorleafs, ventilation panels, wall panels, railing and partitions.2002, Vernacular Settlement in the New Millennium: Resistance and Resilience of Local Knowledge in Built Environment, February 16-17…. From the entry doorleaf
• Our understanding of the Edenic motif in American fiction stems largely from its articulation by three primary critics — R.W.B.1999, Robert W. Hamblin; Charles A. Peek, editors, A William Faulkner Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry edenic
• A houndstooth fabric is composed of tiny, interlocking pinwheel motifs.1998, Deborah Newton, “Dressmaker Details & Finishing”, in Designing Knitwear, Newtown, Ct.: Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry houndstooth
• There are roomsets in the tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane, the latter including stylized iris and moth motifs.1989, San Diego Home Garden - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 89. From the entry roomset

Meaning of motif

1. noun A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.
2. noun A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
3. noun A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern.

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How do you use motif in a sentence?

Motif is used as a noun. For example: “See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?”

What is a short sentence with motif?

“A houndstooth fabric is composed of tiny, interlocking pinwheel motifs.”

What does motif mean?

Motif means a recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.