How to Use armature in a Sentence

armature

noun

• The feet and the armature holding the feet in place will come off.
  — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• Dozens of boxwood sprigs must be wired to the armature.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 13 Dec. 2017
• The tough part will be the water damage and rust on the steel armature or frame inside the clock.
  — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2020
• The hefty piece is made from fiberglass over a steel armature.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2021
• Rust chewed away at the steel armature around which the blocks had been assembled.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• The centuries have been hard on Shakespeare’s play; time has blown the sand away to show us the armature underneath.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2022
• Only, built the new external shell and armature that gave Big Tex his shape.
  — Michael Hogue, Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The idea made for vivid journalism: The human story captured the reader and served as armature for the Big Ideas, of which Luce was fond.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• An armature can be made of metal, wood, or anything that will support the weight of an appendage.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2018
• If the armature is weak, the piece can suddenly collapse after maybe a week or a month of sculpting.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2018
• Then the sculptors would sculpt directly over the armature.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2020
• Countless dollars were spent to construct that rocket and the huge steel armature that cradled it.
  — Rachel Slade, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
• Vining plants like ivies and some ferns, which don’t feature a woody stalk, can be wound up a support and then trained in a round wire plant armature, available at any craft store.
  — Cynthia Kling, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
• Braunig’s world is neon-lit and barren but for warping grids and armatures of what look like high-tech alloys and silicone.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Stereotypes of the anti-human are the armature of extremism.
  — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• The windings are magnetized by the charge and push against the stationary ring of magnets that surround it, forcing the armature assembly to spin.
  — Doug Mahoney, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2021
• Each puppet is designed so that the facial expressions can be switched, with thousands of eyeless masks that can pop on and off the puppet’s steel armature.
  — Katherine Bernard, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• Klassen says his team shrunk the size of the magnets, which sit only millimeters apart, while the windings, too, are closely embedded into the armature.
  — Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Jan. 2019
• Though solid and fixed by an invisible, internal armature, the sculpture seemed not just ready to topple but caught in the act of toppling.
  — Merrell Hambleton, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• The balanced armature works in tandem with a 7.2mm dynamic driver that takes care of the lower frequencies.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
• Insert armature wire into the sides of the pumpkin as shown to create a decorative handle.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• The various organs and bones were constructed on wire armatures and then painted.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2011
• Hundreds of volunteers helped build Conny, mixing cement by hand and slapping it on an armature made of wood and chicken wire.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 30 Jan. 2022
• Balanced armature drivers are used in hearing aids and high-end IEMs (in-ear monitors) used by musicians on stage.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• Austen’s novels provide a solid armature on which to hang a plot from another genre or time period.
  — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
• The bones are tied together via a metal armature, painted black to disappear into the background.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 4 Oct. 2019
• Formed in 1993, Spoon have honed a perfect formula over the years, creating a lean rhythmic armature with just enough heft to accent the quietly soulful, post-Bowie singing of front man Britt Daniel.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 20 July 2017
• Balanced armatures are tiny little speakers that produce a detailed sound and are often used in hearing aids to make speech as clear as possible.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The art lies not only in the fresh efficacy of idea and utterance, but in the story’s armature, its determining designs.
  — William Giraldi, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
• The two painters share an affinity for the grid, a visible framework that serves as an armature for their inventions, and both make frequent references to landscape.
  — Gary Faigin, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024