alabaster

Example Sentences

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Limestone, marble and alabaster are among the most solid materials employed by artists, yet Deborah Reichmann sees them as endlessly mutable.

From Washington Post

Ms. van Seenus — with her alabaster skin, haunting blue eyes and more shapely physique — conveyed a different sensibility.

From New York Times

Translucent alabaster sarcophagi, the author describes as “curiously alive and attractive.”

From Washington Post

Here he is a few weeks later in Bhutan, soaking in an alabaster monastery on a gorgeous November day.

From The Verge

Nearby, the Marble Faun shapes limestone and alabaster into intricately frilled but only tenuously figurative shapes.

From New York Times