marmoreal
Example Sentences
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Brands never lets his subject tarry long enough to freeze into marmoreal stillness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The marmoreal perfections of its verse seemed to reflect the grand façades of the Roman state itself: Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
She quotes Montaigne even more than Kalanithi does, but to her, he is not a marmoreal Great Writer, but a companion, the chatty, brilliant, worldly friend at her elbow.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
It is, with almost all these dancers, marmoreal.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2012
How the tedious old manufacturer could have produced this marmoreal prodigy provided a problem for the sculptor, as he almost silently ate his way through the long and exquisite menu.
From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel
