"statue" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A door opened on a bathroom, another on a kitchen, a third on a long, low open space with a floor of polished wood and small tables bearing statues, ornaments, flowers caught in transparent blocks.
- The façades are unified by an entablature carried by giant Corinthian pilasters that link its two floors and are crowned by a balustrade that bears statues of mythologic figures.
- The fountain that Regilla built had two levels of niches bearing statues and a columnar façade.
- Townspeople consider their year-end reunion here so sacred that they plan Tehuixtla's Christmas posadas, in which candle-bearing villagers parade on 12 consecutive nights from house to house bearing statues of Mary and Joseph, fully two years in advance.
- The obelisk at Saratoga National Historical Park has, on three of its four sides, alcoves bearing statues of three generals instrumental in the success at Saratoga: Gates, Schuyler, and Morgan.
- Between these a central rectangle was marked off by stone benches and plinths bearing statues of marble or bronze, weathered and corroded by age to travesties of the warriors they had once represented.
- When these trophies had passed, amid the applause of an excited crowd, a heavy rumbling announced the approach of massive carts bearing statues and marble groups: the Apollo Belvidere; the Nine Muses; the Laocoon.
- Generals who were granted a triumph were termed triumphators and would erect fornices or honorific arches bearing statues to commemorate their victories.
- The Good Friday procession features decorated carrozas bearing life-size statues of Spanish vintage.
- Perhaps they had once been intended to bear statues of Greek or Roman gods, or of saints to inspire the long departed monks, but if any had ever stood there they had long since been removed.
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