9 sentences with 'marble'
Example sentences and phrases with the word marble and other words derived from it.
• « Fortunately, the Romans appreciated Greek art so much that they often made marble copies of the Greek originals. We thus have a number of examples of what Greek sculpture looked like, albeit in the form of Roman facsimiles. »
• « My classmates and I walked silently in the shadows of the monument's 36 marble columns, representing each state of the Union that Lincoln had worked so hard to preserve. »
• « For a long minute I stared between the marble columns at Mr. Lincoln, bathed in that warm yellow light. »
• « The fortress is composed of sumptuous palaces built of marble and equipped with irrigation systems. It is circular in shape, with a double wall encircling it. »
• « A marble statuette was also found inside the building, showing the torso of a bearded, bare-chested man with a broad tunic draped over one shoulder. »
• « Although the head and face of the marble statue are damaged, there is no doubt that it is a representation of Socrates, similar to the one in the British Museum in London. »
• « Analyses indicate that Varna was a trading centre where the finest goods from the East and the Balkan Peninsula converged. Gold appears to have originated from the Transylvanian Alps in Romania, marble from the caves of southern Bulgaria, and shells from the Aegean Sea. »