Sentence examples for making statues from inspiring English sources

Dependent on regular seasons, man prayed for rain, and, in Honduras, started making statues of maize gods.Freedom and the battles against slavery and totalitarianism dominate the 20th century.

Today, the Schwartzes have begun a new compact with American history, making statues of all 42 framers of the Constitution, from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington.

He was left working as a jobbing craftsman, making statues for fountains and decorations for vases, but also free to pursue his vision.

C. 500 BCE - c. 401 BCE Sámos, ancient Greece Pythagoras, (flourished 5th century bce), noted Greek sculptor of Rhegium (present-day Reggio di Calabria, Italy), a contemporary of Myron and Polyclitus and their rival in making statues of athletes.

She and her husband used to work until 3 in the morning making statues, she said; now that they have hired employees, they have to work only from 8 in the morning until 10 at night.

If the Ten Commandments constitute our greatest source of morality, why is it there no commandments saying do not rape, do not torture, or do not commit incest, yet there are commandments against swearing, working on Sunday, and making statues to other gods?

In Scotland and Ulster, we make statues to commemorate Jimmy Johnstone and Jim Baxter.

"How can you make statues for Mao Zedong?" he said in a telephone interview from Virginia.

The dome was not built until the early 15th century, when Filippo Brunelleschi, a goldsmith and sculptor, began to make statues for the cathedral.

Then last week Harry Wu, a prominent human-rights activist who spent 19 years in a Chinese prison, joined the fray, complaining that Mr. Lei has made statues of Mao.

The New Yorker, May 7 , 1949P. 89 Harry La Montagne, owner of Conniver, is having an exhibition this week of some of his sculpture; he makes statues of horses to amuse himself.