How to Use mandala in a Sentence

mandala

noun
  • Record Mandala: Paint records in the style of mandalas.
    Courant Community, 2 July 2018
  • That’s what makes the mandala more than a pretty thing for people to gawk at.
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Combined with a Savoir bed, the florals arc across the headboard in a bright half mandala.
    Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 22 Mar. 2021
  • For the past five years, Locke has been carving and painting mandalas full-time.
    Susie Schmank, Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Shalitzin also added a large flower with leaves to the side of her head and one on the top of her head that could be part of a mandala.
    Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Bonus: it’s a fun way to introduce kids to what a mandala is — and how to put them together.
    Marisa Iallonardo, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The restaurant also has a patio and a large-scale mandala mural in the dining room.
    Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2020
  • One of her most popular items is a macramé mandala dream catcher.
    Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Those who attend will be able to paint ladybugs and mandalas.
    Courant Community, 25 July 2017
  • His left hand is covered in a mandala-like tattoo; his right is adorned with a pair of red lips billowing smoke.
    Jonathan Ringen, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Each villa that the characters stayed in had a theme—each had a color palette, that was paired with a mandala by artist Max Patté.
    Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Near the center of a large, faraway disk resembling a celestial mandala, a young planet is in the process of being born.
    National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2016
  • The cutout is echoed by a related but not identical pattern on the floor, drawn with white sand like a Tibetan Buddhist mandala.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Your woven silk fabric with the center circle design is called a mandala.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
  • In the courtyard, Guidi instructed children on how to make mandalas.
    Ellen Olivier, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
  • All are invited to watch this authentic visual art project take shape day by day and attend the special events and lectures that are part of the mandala project.
    Gerri Marmer, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • A blast of spices marks the pickled cucumbers boiling in a pot of curry on their way to being stuffed with ground beef and rice, similar to the the mandala-like plates of yaprak, rice-and-beef stuffed rolled grape leaves.
    Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 6 May 2017
  • This mandala could be a petri dish full of menacing microbes, or a murmuring imagination on the edge of sleep.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The mandala was created by the shamans and represented the four elements—fire, water, earth, air.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Dozens of iridescent beetles are formed into a mandala.
    oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2019
  • For my recent birthday, my best childhood girlfriends created a mandala for me out of wildflowers after a hike to the beach.
    Christina Pérez, Vogue, 22 June 2017
  • Teigen turned heads in a feathery, black swan-esque ensemble with a sheer skirt embellished with mandala circles.
    Catherine Kast, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
  • Staff get a chance to think about a little project -- like making a macrame plant hanger, painting a mandala or crafting a terrarium -- instead of focusing on the stress of the work day.
    Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Edouard Duval-Carrié’s metallic collage-painting depicts a man who seems to be crawling through a jungle pool with an Asian-style mandala on his back.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • In Israel, a Shema mandala would concentrate on the declaration of faith.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
  • One in the pediatric oncology outpatient area on the 8th floor is a geometric pattern called a mandala.
    Peter Krouse, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Two girls, both under 5, began arranging the fruit into an elaborate mandala atop a wooden tray.
    Alice Gregory, New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • The resulting battery is simpler to manufacture, requires fewer parts, and looks a bit like a mandala of metallic shingles.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Artists like Samten use colored sands to create the mandalas, which serve as symbolic diagrams that represent the universe and are used as meditation tools.
    Chris Fuchs, NBC News, 17 May 2017
  • Lines of floating colors slowly materialize onto the screen, like a mandala coming to life.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023

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