How to Use frieze in a Sentence

frieze

noun

• Warhol was always present at one end of the frieze, holding his tape recorder at the ready.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• Most visitors rush to the Parthenon Sculptures, so the frieze can be seen in solitude.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• The fragment in question is part of a figure covered in fine drapery from the eastern side of the frieze.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• There’s an argument to be made that TV is art and these full-frontal expressions are paint strokes in the frieze of a show.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2022
• For instance, the top of the building features a pale gold frieze with geometric facets.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
• Today, though, all is peace and perseverance over there by the main frieze.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• According to Budworth, both friezes measure about 9 feet by 4 feet -- though they are cut off at the top by the ceiling.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
• Inside the courtroom hallways, there’s a frieze all along the upper hallway.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2023
• Around the man’s neck was a heavy band of twisted gold decorated with a frieze of panthers, ibex, camels and other beasts.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013
• That, along with a nearby frieze standing over six feet tall served as archeologists' first look at the area.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• Like a jewel on a necklace, the skull was the culmination of a narrow gable frieze that appeared to be made of brown spiders.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• There is a classical frieze of lichen and pine cones; wood shavings conceal checkerboard tiles.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• Oxidation had turned the copper friezes green, and they were painted white.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• When New Hope’s congregation left in 1997 for a larger space in Maryland, the frieze stayed behind.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• The room includes portraits of commanders, a crystal star of destiny to inspire hope, a garrison flag, and a frieze that tells the story of the war.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2022
• The vibrant, and distinct homes in Guatapé, Colombia feature friezes known as zocalos.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• Richards notes ruefully that the copper friezes were sold for scrap; when the stadium reopened, there would be concrete friezes on the scoreboard above the bleachers.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• There, they would be reunited with other parts of the frieze already on display in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• The first great discovery at Susa was a frieze of glazed bricks that decorated the palace, depicting a series of roaring lions.
  — Rue Des Archives/album, History Magazine, 17 Dec. 2020
• The Deng frieze was gone, replaced by two video screens showcasing local development and a beige wall adorned with a Xi quotation.
  — Time, 16 June 2023
• The Parthenon’s friezes were then colorfully painted, and the temple was presided over by a colossal statue of the warrior-goddess Athena, whose gold helmet glinted in the sun.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• The column is decorated with a frieze that depicts the history of white settlement in the area, which was recently restored.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2020
• In the 1700s, Pompeiian-style friezes of Greek legends and botanical motifs, attributed to the painter Giuseppe Teosa, were added to the primary bedroom and its anteroom.
  — Laura May Todd, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• To preserve the paintings, Historic England printed high quality replicas of the friezes, which now cover the originals.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• Klimt conceived the frieze, which features sinewy figures and glimmering sections, as a tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven and the composer's Symphony No. 9.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2021
• The dramatic story of these ice age beasts is thought to be preserved in a frieze of rock paintings created by early humans in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022
• The resulting series is a monochromatic blue-and-black frieze of solitary men seemingly trapped inside spectral cages.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
• The most striking ornamental aspect of these pavilions was the six-foot-high terra-cotta frieze running around each building beneath its eaves.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• That last phrase hints at something beyond the merely mimetic in his work, as in his 1928 painting From Williamsburg Bridge, where the frieze of mismatched façades evokes a quirky family jostling one another for the attention of the camera.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
• The British Museum exhibits the frieze in a cubicle shaped like the cella, and viewers climb stairs to examine it in merciless proximity.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022

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