How to Use death mask in a Sentence

death mask

noun

• Well, the death mask of Hyrum was apparently dropped at some point.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Aug. 2022
• For the AIDs era, there’s a robe made of cassette tapes, topped by a many-headed mushroom-cloud-like death mask.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• When all the coffins had been removed, Carter saw the mummy wore an elaborate death mask.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• The first involves treating the House as a sort of architectural death mask.
  — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Stalin’s death mask rests on a marble stand, like a beloved leader, lying in state.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 30 June 2019
• Among the objects available for viewing are the famous Aztec calendar sun stone and the striking jade death mask of ancient Mayan king Pakal the Great.
  — Nadine Daher, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2020
• From the macabre details (teddy bears, death masks, rosary chokers) to the streetwear-ready ensembles (dirty sneakers and glamorous overcoats), each of the looks was on theme.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 31 May 2018
• Stepping back, seemingly mirrored profiles of Cajal himself emerge from dark sides of the drawing, traced from the shadow of his death mask.
  — Liz Tormes, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2022
• In the meantime, please enjoy an equally everyday-wearable beauty look that went down the Gucci Cruise runway: a death mask made with pantyhose and gem eyes.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 31 May 2018
• Janette Edson extracted hairs embedded in the plaster death mask.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
• King Tutankhamun's death mask, found resting on his mummified shoulders.
  — Laura Saravia, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2022
• The death mask was originally presented at the Cabildo, then moved to Gallier Hall.
  — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• By the 1960s, the practice of dissolving another culture’s death masks on the off chance of finding a manuscript had been all but abandoned, as much for ethical reasons as for the lackluster results.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
• The same can't be said of the death masks attached to similarly consecrated bodies from just a couple hundred years earlier, discovered in the same region.
  — Dmitry Samarov, Chicago Reader, 23 Jan. 2018
• The ancient Egyptians were known for their spectacular headwear, from double crowns worn by pharaohs to the striped nemes headcloths immortalized by Tutankhamun’s golden death mask.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
• The former may have been based on a death mask of its eponymous Florentine politician, but no livelier material object exists.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• But Henry VII’s effigy head is believed to be based on his death mask, and its direct realism could not be further removed from the self-important smugness so evident in other effigies.
  — Richard Cork, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2018
• Highlights include John Dillinger’s death mask and original gambling equipment from a Prohibition-era speakeasy, including roulette tables.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2020
• The town’s Stalin Museum has hardly changed since the Soviet era, presenting an airbrushed version of history — with an entire mausoleum-like room dedicated to Stalin’s death mask.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
• The boy king’s once triumphant riches now appeared tragic, his death mask a memento mori not only for individuals but for civilizations, which, no matter how powerful, seemed destined to fall.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024