assemblage
Example Sentences
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Her painting is a stolid assemblage of horizontal bands, stacked confidently on top of one another, the weight of the structure seeming to make those on top begin to dissolve into those below.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Instead it’s an assemblage of short pieces, many of which have previously appeared in such publications as Harper’s, Vogue and Bookforum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Though she’s skilled at painting and photography, she’s most widely known for assemblage, the art of juxtaposing miscellaneous items to form a single cohesive work.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
The assemblage consists of a nearly complete adult lower jaw, part of a second adult mandible, a child's mandible, several vertebrae, and isolated teeth.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026
Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing assemblage
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The End of "Impunity" in Mexico
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