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Example sentences for "human figure"

  • If the king worships, the god holds out his hand to aid; if he is engaged in secular arts, the divine presence is thought to be sufficiently marked by the circle and wings without the human figure.

  • Another throne of the same monarch's had two large and four small figures of men at the side, while the back was supported on either side by a human figure of superior dimensions.

  • Curved iron knife, with handle carved as a human figure.

  • Point of elephant's tusk, carved with a representation of a human figure kneeling.

  • A human figure sitting in front, out of the mouth of which the spout emerges.

  • The spout consists of a human figure, seated, with two tails; and the spout springs out of the mouth between the teeth of the figure.

  • Like a great cross it seems, on which suspended, With head bowed down in agony, I see A human figure!

  • The exact form which the image took is uncertain; but probability is in favor of the well-known type of a human figure slaying a prostrate bull, which was to the Greeks and Romans the essential symbol of the Mithraic worship.

  • So far as can be gathered from existing works, thirty or forty years elapsed after the picture of Caravaggio was painted before the scheme was brought into use for the human figure in interiors.

  • I looked jealously at it, and half thought I could trace the outline of a human figure; but, if so, it was perfectly motionless.

  • He had not encountered a human figure, and no sounds but the softened rush of the wind sweeping through bushes and hollows met his ear.

  • One of its walls was covered, above a stone cornice, by a frieze of hieroglyphs, and against this wall stood a small square stone altar, each side of which had been decorated with a human figure molded in stucco and painted.

  • He looked round on his solitary lurking place, and beheld no human figure in its lonely recesses.

  • Immediately in the centre, which is slightly depressed, is cut in outline a rude effigy of a human figure, with arms extended and elevated, and apparently in the attitude of running.

  • It represents a human figure in a squatting attitude, the arms clasped around the knees, upon which the chin is resting.

  • In the midst of this group is the representation of a human figure, placed with its head towards the west, and having its arms and legs extended.

  • It represents a human figure in a squatting attitude, with its elbows drawn back and its hands resting upon its knees.

  • A bird, or human figure, frequently takes the place of the bull and goat; and the simple flower becomes a tree, bearing many flowers of the same shape.

  • An owl-headed deity was most likely intended for a deity of the morning or the dawn, the owl-light; to change it into a human figure with an owl's head was the work of a later and more materializing age.

  • This idol, like all the others, has a human figure.

  • It is indicated on the Set-t'an calendar by means of a human figure, with blood flowing from a wound in the side, standing above the square inclosure, with a snake behind it to show the name.

  • Lone-wolf, rudely indicated below the winter mark by a human figure wearing a k`odalpae or shell breastplate, with several flying bullets at the side.

  • Looking toward the moon, hanging low in the west, he saw what seemed a vague, watery cloud obscuring her; but as it moved so that her beams lit up one side of it he perceived the clear, sharp outline of a human figure.

  • Some of the idols represent an animal, apparently a tiger, springing upon the head and back of a human figure.

  • Among them is a figure from the island of Ometepe, which represents an alligator upon the back of a human figure, which apparently originally surmounted a large vase.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human figure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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