Sentence examples for turned to marble from inspiring English sources

Suddenly, the fabric turned to marble columns.

"Father's been turned to marble," she said.

The angels, he'd explained, were the bodies of the dead children whom God had turned to marble.

She thought of the smell a body has after it's lain outside all winter, frozen in a block, even the eyes frozen, the vitreous humor turned to marble, and then the spring thaw hits.

Director Allie Avital explained her and Ashin's thinking behind the video, saying that it was influenced by the record's cover art: "Over the course of the last few months, we developed this mythology of a dystopian office where the businesspeople have turned to marble, and this mischievous Puck-like character plays amongst them".

The Greeks learned the techniques of handling the harder stone in Egypt, and at home they turned to the fine white marble of the Cyclades islands (mainly Paros and Naxos) for their materials.

One of the most famous works on display, Michelangelo Pistoletto's The Venus of the Rags, begun in 1967, features a generic classical statue in marble turned to face a huge heap of old clothes.

Driven by "censorship behind closed doors", Wajda had turned to non-overtly political literature for his material until Man of Marble (1977).

Splashing bleach on the rectangular, sort of coffin-shaped marble tub, he turns to me and grimaces, "You see why I'm not wearing a suit?" When Donofrio changes later for the actual funeral, the rabbi sees him all dressed up and giggles.

Bar Blanc is true to the second half of its name, turning to the color white for its sleek leather banquettes, its walls and its marble bar.

Bar Blanc is true to the second half of its name, turning to the color white for its sleek leather banquettes, its walls and its prominent marble bar.