Sentence examples for were figures of from inspiring English sources
When I was a child, mullahs were figures of fun.
"The only time we saw working-class characters they were sidekicks, like Digby in Dan Dare, or they were figures of fun," Mills says.
The likes of Bismarck, Witte and Salisbury were not modest men, but they were figures of far better skill and judgment.
"The tasty little family" — as the first editor of The New Yorker, Harold Ross, called them — were figures of startling caprice, grotesques inhabiting a bourgeois world while taking revenge on its suffocating decency.
Virtually all his roles were figures of reason and dignity, like his priest in Cry the Beloved Country (1951), and his cameo as Simon of Cyrene in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
Others on the secret list were figures of such prominence in Russia that the administration feared identifying them might invite retaliation by President Vladimir V. Putin against similarly situated American officials like members of Congress.
They're figures of speech, not figures in a landscape.
Many of the bin Laden caricatures are figures of ridicule.
Jamaicans are figures of fun and Chinese are to be avoided.
"Police are figures of authority – we [the Bernie Peacekeepers] are there to be friendly.
"They are figures of trust for women who may be scared to trust others".
