The word "statues" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to sculpted figures, typically made of stone, metal, or other materials, representing a person or animal.
Example: "The park was adorned with beautiful statues of historical figures."
Alternatives: "sculptures" or "figurines."
There was nonetheless a historical irony in watching Ukrainians tearing down Lenin's statues as a sign of their will to break with Soviet domination and assert their national sovereignty.
Comprising three once grand houses, and furnished with antique mirrors, desks, cabinets, clocks, statues, lamps and paintings, it's like an underfunded museum with comfortable beds.
There are statues in honour of him in Guildford and Manchester, where he lived and worked, and he was the subject of a rare speech on 4 October last year by Sir Iain Lobban, the current director of GCHQ, to mark the 100th anniversary of the codebreaker's birth.
Already one million tourists have arrived – spilling out of archaeological sites and the narrow alleyways of the picturesque Plaka district beneath the Acropolis, piling into restaurants and cafes and cramming the stores that sell the fodder of every classic Greek holiday: sandals, statues, T-shirts and bags.
After Kadesh, Moses returns to Egypt, where Jewish slaves are working away on some monuments, colossal statues and a pyramid.
This special kingdom had a mile-long metal walkway built on giant concrete pillars and was surrounded by huge metal statues of aliens or 'unreal dudes' as one DJ, a kid from Moscow called Kirsil, described them to us.
If she had had work done during the 12 years, she would not be collecting these statues.
Off-duty, she and Jamie had a running joke: taking stupid photographs, "smoking in front of a no-smoking sign or posing in front of statues, mimicking the pose.
There is a large graveyard, a dusty football pitch, a small church missing statues filched by protesting Indians, and at least two impressive hotels.
We drove to downtown Pyongyang, an unattractive showcase for the school of brutalist communist architecture – huge open spaces surrounded by imposing monuments, cold statues and ugly tower blocks all designed to make you, as an individual, feel very insignificant.
Open areas are infilled with grass and a gravel matching the stone of the castle Statues and urns are typical of the extravagant baroque style of the 17th and 18th centuries The reds and yellows of hybrid tea roses, golden yews, purple prunus and 30 varieties of acer echo the colours of the Drummond family crest.
