"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Inside the case is a crowd of small wooden lay figures.
- This is not a lay figure, but a real man deep in a real book.
- But the mortal dust that these lay figures represent is lost, since they have been moved from their original positions.
- She became impersonal and forgot her husband, only using him as a lay figure to give point to her tale.
- Thereafter until his death he was the dominant lay figure in Galicia.
- She had other things to do besides serving as a lay figure for the trials of a secret weapon.
- But the body was painted from a lay figure dressed in the uniform.
- In one corner a lay figure was extended on a couch, covered with a pall of black velvet.
- It seemed to her as though a lay figure of a man were coming to life.
- Beside the pallid nudes, the lay figure, made of brown wood, seems almost alive.
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