Sentence examples for statues hold from inspiring English sources

Among the cheap plastic toys for sale and the card sharps attempting to scam the unsuspecting, the frozen human statues hold court.

These fox statues hold a symbolic item in their mouths or beneath a front paw most often a jewel and a key, but a sheaf of rice, a scroll, or a fox cub are all common.

Vandals, fans, and souvenir hunters stripped the site of mementos and statues, held parties at his grave site, and even tried to remove his body.

Vandals, fans, and souvenir hunters have stripped the site of mementos and statues, held parties at his grave site, and even tried to remove his body.

(In addition to the several dozen performers, a haunting phalanx of statues holds vigil upstage.) As for the central performances, there isn't space here to describe them in the detail they warrant.

The British photographer and his studio is decorated with the classical sculptures and nude statues holding spears in a phallic symbol.

They said the statue held significance for them because their relatives were immigrants.

The new statue held a document labeled "House Bill 1016," the legislation Mr. Edwards wrote in 1979 declaring Juneteenth a legal state holiday, instead of an emancipation document.

"See, Justice's skirt is made out of tobacco leaves," Mr. Busse said, beaming at the statue, holding her scale on the City Hall roof.

Oyster gray, splotched with rust, and -- truth to tell -- a bit too plump, the 64th Street statue holds a blank tablet (the original says "July IV MDCCLXXVI") and a torch that looks more like a coffee can than the "imprisoned lightning" depicted by Emma Lazarus.

Today the statue holds no water and is sometimes planted with flowers.