How to Use armature in a Sentence

armature

noun
  • The feet and the armature holding the feet in place will come off.
    — Steve Johnson and Phil Geib, chicagotribune.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The hefty piece is made from fiberglass over a steel armature.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Rust chewed away at the steel armature around which the blocks had been assembled.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The tough part will be the water damage and rust on the steel armature or frame inside the clock.
    — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2020
  • An armature can be made of metal, wood, or anything that will support the weight of an appendage.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2018
  • If the armature is weak, the piece can suddenly collapse after maybe a week or a month of sculpting.
    — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2018
  • This will be her first ready-to-wear season without the armature of her former employer.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Countless dollars were spent to construct that rocket and the huge steel armature that cradled it.
    — Rachel Slade, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
  • The armature is supported by an empty ring, which is cushioned for comfort, around the ear.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Only, built the new external shell and armature that gave Big Tex his shape.
    — Michael Hogue, Dallas News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The centuries have been hard on Shakespeare’s play; time has blown the sand away to show us the armature underneath.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The figures had cracked in many places and some of the statues revealed their complicated armature.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Braunig’s world is neon-lit and barren but for warping grids and armatures of what look like high-tech alloys and silicone.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • At the museum, two of her ceramic stumps, or armatures, sit several feet high, both a fleshy pink with streaks of white and red.
    — Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Unfurling her wings for the first time and activating them under the weight of her armature seems to pose a challenge.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Austen’s novels provide a solid armature on which to hang a plot from another genre or time period.
    — Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Both sculptures were propped up by a visible armature of steel scaffolding and sandbags.
    — Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
  • As for the armature of the cow, well, that might end up in Victor's and Pelton's yard, joining the rest of the menagerie.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The various organs and bones were constructed on wire armatures and then painted.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 18 Nov. 2011
  • Those armatures, in turn, caused her paintings to appear three-dimensional.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Ten years later, the armature of assumptions and policies that enabled such a partnership has been blown apart.
    — Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Vining plants like ivies and some ferns, which don’t feature a woody stalk, can be wound up a support and then trained in a round wire plant armature, available at any craft store.
    — Cynthia Kling, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Bukovac is sketching out an eloquent acoustic armature, slow and minimal, but rich and melancholy.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Insert armature wire into the sides of the pumpkin as shown to create a decorative handle.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • With this narrative armature established, the game can begin.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The bones are tied together via a metal armature, painted black to disappear into the background.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Each puppet is designed so that the facial expressions can be switched, with thousands of eyeless masks that can pop on and off the puppet’s steel armature.
    — Katherine Bernard, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The guest house, which looks onto the pool, is built with a trellis armature on one face of the building, where hydrangea vines are expected to grow over the coming years.
    — David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Balanced armatures are tiny little speakers that produce a detailed sound and are often used in hearing aids to make speech as clear as possible.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Fraser created the moving figures made of plaster and a metal armature.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024

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