How to Use biomorphic in a Sentence

biomorphic

adjective
  • All those things surely shaped her art, but biomorphic forms seem foremost in her work.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • There are no melting clocks in her paintings, no biomorphic creatures.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Trim them to clean, neat geometric shapes to contrast with the biomorphic shapes of hydrangeas.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Gomes’s sculptures have a biomorphic feel to them, even while being fully abstract.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Bruno built the biomorphic 110-ton structure by hand and lived in it for seven months before his death.
    — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Smooth and organic-looking, this Doug could be taken for a biomorphic sculpture.
    — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Even before Vogue revisited these biomorphic dots, celebrities had caught on, though.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2020
  • One of Krause’s resembles a lacy photogram; another squirms with blue and pink biomorphic strands, spreading like ivy.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Atop each plinth, Corkery positions a biomorphic fiberboard cutout, squirmy in the mode of Hans Arp.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
  • Indeed, at the Met’s show, that sustained viewing of biomorphic forms and cluttered limbs can unsettle a person.
    — Sophie Madeline Dess, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The Australian designer has been selling diaphanous layered tanks and second-skin tops with biomorphic cutouts for years.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 July 2023
  • Scholars have likened his biomorphic imagery to the ancient rock formations of his native Brittany.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Annie is a biomorphic robot designed by a company called Stella-Handy.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Soon enough the visuals settle into a general biomorphic cheesiness.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Unmentioned in the commission meeting was Arrechea, who designed a pair of biomorphic works to be installed over the eastern end of the lake.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Originally, the chair was made with fiberglass, a strong, pliable material which lent itself well to creating the biomorphic shell shapes.
    — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The visual volley is complemented by similar rhythms among biomorphic blobs whose shapes echo one another’s and simple patterns that look as if they have been cut from the same cloth.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The result is a set of sculptural pieces framing the bathroom sink, a floral bouquet dangling from the ceiling, and the ambient glow of biomorphic glass with a distinctly human touch.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Michael Gessner’s paper, wood and wire constructions also suggest biomorphic forms, emulating leaves, wings and insects.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The bright colors and biomorphic forms of Alexander Calder’s sculpture and mobiles are instantly recognizable.
    — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Slurries of paint pushed around the canvas create biomorphic forms and outline letters, but words are truncated, and letters arrive backwards, as if the meaning of the text is no longer important.
    — OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • This fieldwork led to the discovery of the new Nazca lines, which feature 40 biomorphic glyphs depicting animals, plants or people.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2014
  • The architecture, a minimalist fusion of modernist lines and biomorphic flow, reflects the curvature of the coastline itself.
    — Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • On view are works with a kooky utopian twist, such as the blobby, biomorphic sculptures of New York artist Thomas Barger, which double as shelves for storage and display.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Yashnyk’s fundamental interest is gender, and her biomorphic mash-ups challenge categories that are more societal than physical in origin.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • His sinuous, biomorphic chairs, tables, desks, pianos, clocks and vanities, which resembled giant teeth, a human tongue, elephants’ feet and human forms, started as freestyle drawings on rag paper.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • One of Burle Marx’s signature elements was the use of biomorphic paving patterns, with walkways functioning as part of the site’s aesthetics, not just a way through it, Forrest says.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • The 1998 Armageddon — in which a bunch of oil-rig drillers set out to save Earth from a strangely glowing, almost biomorphic killer asteroid — lives on mostly as a hate-watch favorite.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2020
  • At once biomorphic and industrial, the Side Chair is now endlessly cribbed and reinterpreted, showing up in high-end restaurants and Brooklyn townhouses.
    — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • There, working with local artisans, Pasqualetti launched their own line of jewelry, featuring biomorphic shapes made using leftover stone from the interiors industry and found objects.
    — Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021

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