How to Use alabaster in a Sentence

alabaster

noun
  • Not these ladies, who proved that all things alabaster may be the new black.
    — Carson Griffith, Town & Country, 1 May 2014
  • Ripped apart like thick alabaster pages and bleeding like ink from a quill.
    — Halsey, Billboard, 20 June 2017
  • But the opaque black frames stay plastered on his square, alabaster face.
    — Rachel Zarrell, Esquire, 18 July 2013
  • These birds are holding an alabaster ball, which is meant to be an egg, with their feet.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The vines grow high in altitude in a very white alabaster soil.
    — Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • One of the first on display is a ten-inch alabaster statuette of a goddess.
    — Peter Frankopan, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2019
  • The pictures show a lovely dog, with fur the color of alabaster.
    — Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The front of an amorphous alabaster coat flapped unzipped at the top and bottom.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Many of the tens of thousands of homes are hollow husks of concrete and alabaster.
    — Albee Zhang, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • His alabaster skin, however, has been painted a rich shade of mocha.
    — Matt Stromberg, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • Blocks of alabaster, limestone, granite and marble lie about in the brown grass.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Wang plans to translate all of these looks into shades of ivory, alabaster, stark white and antique white.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Some of her favorites to look out for include brass, marble, onyx, and alabaster, just to name a few.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Some of her favorites to look out for include brass, marble, onyx, and alabaster, just to name a few.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Some of her favorites to look out for include brass, marble, onyx, and alabaster, just to name a few.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 12 June 2026
  • The sacred land here is peppered with row after row of alabaster white headstones.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The tousled waves through mid-lengths and ends lent more body to the cut, and drew the eye to her alabaster complexion.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Her sons have already damaged one of the Pierre Chareau alabaster sconces.
    — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 21 Aug. 2015
  • Shiploads of alabaster artwork escaped the furnaces and were sent to France.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Athena would pair it with the ottoman, surely, and likely an alabaster table lamp.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Burl wood made an entrance, as did alabaster and geometric light fixtures.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
  • High-class organs were laid to rest in alabaster jars; fancy faces were swaddled in masks made with gold and silver.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2020
  • The mother and child in sensuous alabaster.
    — Air Mail, 13 June 2026
  • An alabaster stone fused with a crucifix lay beside; it is said to have always been by his bedside.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • From this emerge 8-feet tall spikes in summer, each smothered in nodding, cup-shape alabaster flowers.
    — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The alabaster head is likely that of a nobleman in Alexandria.
    — Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2018
  • Prince notes that many of these items are from Italy, and a recent find of hers included alabaster bookends.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Some were in marble, others in bronze; others still combined marble, alabaster and bronze.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The lamp is alabaster and aged iron, available through Circa Lighting.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The home was stuffed with memento mori, among them skulls carved out of ivory and alabaster as well as a 16-inch-tall bronze skeleton.
    — Bridget Reed Morawski, Washington Post, 27 July 2017

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