To stand as still as a statue is to stand absolutely still, a statue being a sculpture, after all. A statue is a specific kind of sculpture, one that clearly represents a person, an animal, or other living creature.
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image;
Noun
a sculpture representing a human or animal
n.
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
n.
A portrait.
v. t.
To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into
a statue.
Statue
I will raise her statue in pure gold.2.
Statue
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image;
To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.
Usage Examples
I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Other Usage ExamplesSociety is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
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