How to Use frieze in a Sentence

frieze

noun
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  • 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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