Sentence examples for statues used for from inspiring English sources

The planning of ground-level temples continued to elaborate on a single theme: a rectangular sanctuary, entered on the cross axis, with altar, offering table, and pedestals for votive statuary (statues used for vicarious worship or intercession).

Paintings and statues used in The Da Vinci Code were also auctioned to raise money for the cathedral after filming had finished.

The broadly written bill authored by GOP Senator Tom Tiffany (R-Hazelhurst) would only allow the statue to be used for serious, for instance violent, felonies and would apply time limits and other restrictions.

Put breakable statues or vases being used for decoration on higher bookshelves while placing stuffed toys and children's books on low shelves.

The bronze statue used lost-wax casting.

Beyond the shipping area are hundreds of molds used for casting statues, some more than 50 years old.

Alcove also refers to spaces, often semicircular in plan, hollowed out of thick walls and used for displaying statues, as found in Roman and Renaissance architecture.

Marble is used for making statues, because it lasts a long time and is nice to look at!

The community developed as a market-processing centre for the surrounding farmlands and for the area's large gypsum deposits; gypsum quarried near Fort Dodge was used for a statue that was purported to be a petrified prehistoric man in the celebrated Cardiff Giant hoax.

A scale model was used for the Statue of Liberty.

The bronze used for the statue was cast from Confederate cannons captured during the Civil War.