How to use sculpture in a sentence

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• I do some sculpturing, but I don't like to show anybody.From the entry show
• That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.From the entry functional
• Michelangelo was a very ambidextrous artist, producing sculptures and frescoes with equal ability.From the entry ambidextrous
• I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.From the entry into
• The extreme humidity decayed the wooden sculptures in the museum's collection in a matter of years.From the entry decay
• His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together.From the entry hodgepodge
• Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.From the entry hieratic
• Each handcrafted sculpture is a unique work of art: no two are exactly the same.From the entry handcrafted
• He's a mud monkey digging all-day, gathering clay for his sculpture.From the entry mud monkey
• Xyloglyphy is a form of sculpture, whereas xylography is engraving in wood.From the entry xyloglyphy
• She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.From the entry chisel
• Some artists, like Michelangelo, excel in both painting and sculpture.From the entry painting
• The artist used synthetic resin in her sculptures.From the entry resin
• Michelangelo's "David" is an exemplar of Renaissance sculpture.From the entry exemplar
• I don't think much of the sculpture in their front yard, but I guess it makes a good conversation piece.From the entry conversation piece
• He chiseled up the details on the sculpture.From the entry chisel up
• His sculptured features drew appreciative looks.From the entry sculptured
• By contrast, the shendyt kilt is well attested on Egyptian sculptures of all periods.2021 July 19, Giorgia Cafici, The Egyptian Elite as Roman Citizens: Looking at Ptolemaic Private Portraiture, BRILL, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry shendyt
• On the other hand: I’m sorry the sculpture hurt your feelings.2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian. From the entry pedalo
• But in “Alex Prager,” she has elaborated on these signature techniques with her first sculpture.2018 January 9, Leanne Mirandilla, “Alex Prager: The artist who straddles the real and the imagined”, in CNN. From the entry Prager
• A three-meter-high sculpture stands in the rice fields of Fuli Township in Hualien.2017 January 16, 0:28 from the start, in Hualien’s Fuli Township installs giant rice bran sculpture to draw attention to conservation…. From the entry Fuli
• That is not the case with “Big Oil Bubble” as the Karamay sculpture is called.2015 August 29, “The Bean and the Bubble”, in The Economist, volume 416, number 8953, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27. From the entry Karamay
• Traditionally the Foo dogs were somewhat austere, unpainted stone sculptures meant to frighten away evil spirits.2014, Shelia Hollihan-Elliot, Art and Architecture of China, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry foo dog
• A centralized gallery of early drawings and soft sculptures defines Mr.2009 June 5, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry platterlike
• The two are handmaking mirrors, sculptures and furnishings from salvaged materials (or “plundered trash,” as Mr.2009 June 11, Penelope Green, “Save That Driftwood for Them”, in New York Times. From the entry handmake
• Orissa achieved excellence in the spheres of painting, sculpture, art, architecture and literature.2008, Orissa: An Encyclopaedia of Events, 2 edition, Sankalpa Publications, page 13. From the entry Oriya
• On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans.2008, Christopher Ejsmond, Reflections on Life, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry transhuman
• These works deserve a place in any survey of postminimal sculpture.2008 June 13, Karen Rosenberg, “This Land Is Her Land (and Her Artwork, Too)”, in New York Times. From the entry postminimal
• "Something as simple as a locked chest or as ornate as a piece of sculpture.2007 March, Tim Waggoner, chapter 2, in Forge of the Mind Slayers (Blade of the Flame; 2), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN…. From the entry phylactery
• What pileous sculptures was the young man creating on that lovely head?2006, Andrew Miller, Casanova, unnumbered page. From the entry pileous
• Sculpturing gels provide stiffer hold than styling gels, which provide better hold than mousses.2004, Zoe Diana Draelos, Hair Care: An Illustrated Dermatologic Handbook, page 221. From the entry hold
• A relief sculpture of Ahura Mazda stands among the ruins of Persepolis in Iran.2003, Jeffrey Brodd, World Religions 2003: A Voyage of Discovery, page 181. From the entry Ahura Mazda
• This show featured installations, painting, and sculptures, all of which are recast as ofrendas to the dead.2001, Karen Mary Davalos, Exhibiting Mestizaje, University of New Mexico Press, page 145. From the entry ofrenda
• At ze Palace of Beauxbatons, we ’ave ice sculptures all around ze Dining Chamber at Chreetsmas.2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Yule Ball”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London…. From the entry ze
• The smiling kouros is the first fully free-standing sculpture in art.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry kouros
• The source of this characteristic is easily traceable to the wrestlerlike postures of the typical round-volumed sculptures.1988, J. Halley Cox, William H. Davenport, Hawaiian Sculpture: Revised Edition, page 96. From the entry traceable
• At Asanpat in Keonjhar district an eight-armed ithyphallic sculpture of a dancing Shiva was found.1987, M[anohar] L[axman] Varadpande, “Contribution of Religion”, in History of Indian Theatre, volume 1, New Delhi: Shakti Malik, Abhinav…. From the entry ithyphallic
• Harvard has declined to become the repository of George Segal's controversial sculpture, "Gay Liberation."1982 February 13, “Statuary Limitations”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 2. From the entry repository
• The present exhibition, through March 24, features traditional wood and metal sculpture from the Upper Volta.1979 January 4, Roslyn Siegel, “Traditional Art From Upper Volta”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry Upper Volta
• Coiling is serpenticone or heteromorph, sculpture is of ribbing (almost invariably simple), with external tuberculation in Choristoceratidae.1979, Paper, →ISBN. From the entry serpenticone

Meaning of sculpture

1. noun A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
2. noun More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.
3. noun Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.

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Questions about sculpture in a sentence

How do you use sculpture in a sentence?

Sculpture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I do some sculpturing, but I don't like to show anybody.”

What is a short sentence with sculpture?

“His sculptured features drew appreciative looks.”

What does sculpture mean?

Sculpture means a three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).