Sentence examples for statues about from inspiring English sources

The movers walked the replica about 328 feet (100 m) in 40 minutes; from this demonstration and assuming the ancient builders would have been somewhat of experts at their jobs, Lipo suspects they would have moved the Rapa Nui statues about 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) a day, meaning transport would have taken about two weeks.

Zealous officials among the ruling Islamic militia recently destroyed several ancient relics in Kabul Museum, including an exquisite Buddha statue about 2,000 old, reports have said.

When I looked up from my bag of nuts, I locked eyes with a squirrel that was standing up straight as a statue, about eight feet away from me.

The Tōdai Temple (745 752) is noted for the Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, a giant statue about 50 feet (15 m) high that is housed in the Great Buddha hall, one of the largest wooden buildings in the world.

They were chanting, "You will not replace us!" and "Jews will not replace us!" By the time they reached the Jefferson statue, about twenty students from the University of Virginia had encircled it, locking arms.

Reenactments showed that 12 islanders were able to lift a 25-ton statue about 10 feet off the ground and to tilt it on end on top of an ahu; this work took 18 days with no tools other than two wooden logs that were used as levers.

It seems that the darker parts of the statue were constructed by applying the same order of layers twice, making these parts of the covering of the statue about twice as thick.

There will be 6 to 8 such statues, and about 100 handprints.

Originally, there were a dozen of the statues, each about two feet tall, carved from dark-green schist, and dating to the fifth century.

But I want to add something else into the mix: Milton Keynes's public art; the many sculptures and statues scattered about the landscape.

She once used Elf's money to buy Mr. Dumas a $1,700 pair of handmade shoes and a small collection of antique statues worth about $40,000.