How to Use death mask in a Sentence

death mask

noun
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  • 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
  • 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

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