How to Use maquette in a Sentence

maquette

noun

• It was sold to me as an original piece with some maquettes of the bullets.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• But the maquette in the show was newly constructed in 2015.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• From the renderings, a maquette, a small-scale model, five feet long, was made.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
• The maquette depicted a mother and baby in a lifeboat held aloft by lost souls.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• The imbas drew curators’ eyes and sparked a studio epiphany when Leigh placed a small ceramic head on the maquette of a hut.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• As a great side item, little maquettes of these scenes fill up another room.
  — Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 5 May 2017
• These are notes, maquettes, drawings and sketches, some of which have never been seen in public.
  — Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 21 Dec. 2017
• Visiting del Toro’s house one night, Hill noticed a maquette of a gilled man, which del Toro explained was for his new movie.
  — Katey Rich, HWD, 15 Dec. 2017
• He’s made a maquette of a piece bearing two paletas, one painted with the Mexican flag and the other with the American flag.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2022
• Wood could have used a bar of Masonite and glue to compensate for the imbalances, but that would have diminished the accuracy of the maquette.
  — Peter Libbey, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
• Those cabins are sited on James Benning’s property in Pine Flat, but maquettes of them have been shown in museums all over the world.
  — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 2 May 2018
• The stories are breathtakingly small, as though the original show has been shrunk down into a vivid maquette.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
• Even smaller pieces are the show's most peculiar and enchanting: The nine littlest works (7 to 10 inches tall) read as miniatures, or maquettes.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The exhibit in the Silpe gallery at U of H is a collection of archival documents, maps of the river and maquettes of bridges across the river and models of animal habitats.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 June 2019
• In the aftermath of this upheaval, Pinch and Bannon returned, for reassurance, to a small balsa-wood maquette of the home that Pinch had made during the planning phase.
  — Ellie Pithers, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• Inside artist Chas Fagan’s modest home studio in Myers Park, dozens of little maquettes — one-eighth size sculpture models — mingle with busts of past presidents, a pilot and even a pope.
  — Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• The short PAX East demo only hints at an even wider world outside the initial domed enclosure, where your larger environment acts as its own recursive maquette for an even greater adventure.
  — Kyle Orland and Sarah Leboeuf, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2020
• Chase-Ribaud submitted the maquette to an art competition in Truth’s Massachusetts hometown in 1999, but another artist won the commission.
  — Wendy Bellion, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022
• Toogood has long worked with maquettes, or preliminary miniature models made from castoff materials.
  — Samuel Rutter, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• His past projects -- curated cabinets of curiosities, maquettes of childrens' rooms and artists' studios, a fallen tree rehousedin a robotic greenhouse -- delight in their aesthetic achievements.
  — Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• There are small maquettes for commissions in an adjacent gallery, including a study for a 10-foot-tall installation in Denver in which early-morning condensation produced fog (it was later dismantled).
  — Ann Landi, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• After examining the maquette, Spielberg gave Rombaldi the go-ahead to begin building the animatronic version.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Early on, Duggal sculpted a maquette that served as a character reference for the character which also gave everyone something physical to interact with, such as determining lighting.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2021
• Amid the show-stoppers will be hundreds of Laika artifacts: original sketches, small models called maquettes, storyboards outlining animation sequences, puppets and costumes.
  — Amy Wang | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• The Russian artist couple’s exhibition features more than 20 maquettes, or whimsical models, including architectural structures, allegorical narratives and commissioned outdoor works.
  — Carrie Donovan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024