statuary

Example Sentences

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Under that water, buildings, statuary, coins and royal personal effects came to rest, and waited to be found.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Thankfully what was saved made a much longer list - including all the stained-glass windows, most of the statuary and artwork, and the holy relic known as the Crown of Thorns.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Nearby is a simulated salt mine, its craggy walls lined with images of centuries-old paintings and crates of statuary — representing works of art plundered by the Germans and recovered after the war.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2023

Small armies of landscapers tend to lush grass and rolling hills, where private roads with names like “Memory Lane” and “Baby Land” lead upward past maximalist mausoleums, columbaria and replica Renaissance statuary.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Nailer clambered back into the main passage and made his way past a sitting room full of fallen paintings and shattered statuary.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi