Sentence examples for making a figure of from inspiring English sources

The hair was a fashion statement, the artist making a figure of himself, cutting a dash and looking younger than his 36 years, in 1780.

On the contrary, Michaelis said: "In a process that starts with a baby and ends with a corpse, to know all is to be humbled — gentled — by the act of being responsible for making a figure of myth and legend mortal again.

Making a figure out of stone or metal retains its childlike wonder for me.

With one you can make a figure of eight or oval shape.

In any case the magnitude of the refugee crisis in Europe makes a figure of 3,000 seem very small.

And that is why families too poor to afford a minghun bride also follow a similar custom in some villages: They make a figure of straw and bury it beside a dead son as the spouse he never had.

Credit: UNICEF Ukraine/2015/P.Demchenko "I wanted to make a figure of a cat, I used to have a cat at home.

Make a figure out of shapes.

I'm not making a figure - and yet I am, of course.

James Device also gave evidence against his mother, saying he had seen her making a clay figure of one of her victims, John Robinson.

For Gauguin, running away was a theatrical act: his celebrated solitude in the South Seas played beautifully, making him a figure of scandal and envy among the bourgeois collectors who bought his sensual visions of escape.