Sentence examples for a small effigy from inspiring English sources

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Celia is moved to torch a small effigy of her father.

The "boli," a small effigy with a bead necklace that is swathed with cloth soaked in blood and other organic substances, is of the kind used in consultations with the Kono society.

A small effigy of a referee appeared on the front door of Paterno's home and was later joined by one of Paterno, but he continued to feign surprise about the totems.

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The 13-foot-tall model featured a smaller effigy of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte cowering behind the Trump figure.

His aim in his creche has been to present the Nativity in a contemporary manner, not as if announced just by a star and to shepherds watching their flocks by night but as if heard by today's stars of French public life on a news broadcast, while sitting in effigy around a small TV set, on whose screen is actually seen a newborn infant, accompanied by a mumbled announcement from Luke 2 8-11 2 8-11

His strongest evidence of a burial ground, he said, is his discovery in the early 1990's of an effigy stone -- a small, highly polished black oval stone with a flat bottom and the carvings of two eyes, two nostrils and a mouth.

Since it began here 15 years ago as a small beach party where a wooden effigy was burned for no particular reason, the annual Burning Man Festival has grown to an eight-day event in the Nevada desert with 25,000 participants.

Tarak was walking along the high earth embankment that protects Jelepara from the river Chunkuri, and had just passed a small Hindu temple with its gaudy, painted wooden effigies of the tiger god Dakshin Ray.

But this only flared into violence when a small group left the main protest, carrying what appeared to be an effigy, and gathered in the area in front of the 30 Millbank office building.

Based on tribal art effigies, they are grouped together in a corner — "like a small shrine," Ms. Cruz said.

Although small stone effigies have been found, sculpture was not a highly developed art form.

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