statuesque

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Once again, it was weakness at set-pieces that proved fatal for West Ham as Dominguez met Elliot Anderson's corner with a looping header that dropped into the far corner while the Hammers defence stood statuesque.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

The drawings emphasize the allegorical side of Ahab’s monomaniacal hunt, fixing the characters in expressive, statuesque postures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

During Friday night jazz at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, I met Katrina, a statuesque blond who had recently emigrated from Russia.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Worse was to come two minutes later when Lisandro Martinez's routine long ball caught City's defence inexplicably statuesque.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024

He remembered his mother’s statuesque body bending over the gas ring to stir at something in a saucepan.

From "1984" by George Orwell