How to Use diorama in a Sentence

diorama

noun
  • Her songs are almost like dioramas that have a lot of drapery in them.
    — Jenn Pelly, Vulture, 17 May 2024
  • All of these dioramas have been carefully thought out with that in mind.
    — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Think of it as a diorama with a glimpse into a gentler, long-past time.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The dioramas on view unite the folksy whimsy of arts and crafts with a dark sense of humor.
    — Maxine Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2018
  • One poor mark in second grade on a diorama about the pilgrims could derail a whole life.
    — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • People take the shells and make them as main characters in their diorama.
    — David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024
  • In fact, several of the dioramas have had their own entire set.
    — Kim Snaith, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Chicks Our littlest Peeps like to make dioramas, too.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Kids who won a contest get to display their model train dioramas in the dining room.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The 80-year-old dioramas now have a state-of-the-art lighting system.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2017
  • These eye-catching bats prove that diorama fun shouldn't be confined to inside the pumpkin.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Woman's Day, 16 June 2017
  • From this scenic perch, Rome unfurls in a diorama of roofs, columns and cupolas.
    — Lee Marshall, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The stage was dressed like an oversized diorama, the view out from a mountain home, through the trees to the valley below.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The diorama is normally behind glass, but the glass is broken.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • This gives the biography the at once complex and childlike feel of a diorama.
    — Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • Her first project at the museum was a diorama of an Aztec marketplace.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • One of the current museum's dioramas — the beloved honey bears — will be featured in this part of the gallery.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Some people create their scenes in diorama-friendly boxes, but this is not required.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The diorama also comes with a stand, a 40th-anniversary plaque, and a classic quote from the scene.
    — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • With a diorama, the artist’s hand can always come down into the shoebox, to move and adjust the figures inside.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
  • One diorama shows the effect of light color, where less of a bluish, daylight tone still lights the streetscape without washing out the sky so much.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The paintings are set into the frame of a slight bevel, turning them into dioramas, or a series of windows.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The diorama uses Chiclets — dozens of them, lined up along shelves, hand-painted to resemble books.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2017
  • This will be the second ever showing of the diorama, and Turchyn hopes to find a permanent place to display it.
    — Austen Erblat, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • The ocean, Palm Jumeirah island in the distance and even the Dubai skyline to our left look like dioramas.
    — Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • There are layered diorama-style puppet theater with paper figures.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The first thing that people notice is the life-size diorama of a Native American and his dwelling.
    — Kathi Santora, baltimoresun.com, 23 June 2017
  • Or that in the vestibule of the church, tucked away from the street in a nook, behind gates, is a brass diorama meant to honor Vesey and the other founders of the church.
    — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The Muskrat Group diorama, now on the museum's first floor, will be in the new museum's mixing zones area.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2023
  • In the image, Cotton sits next to an in-progress diorama of birds in a Nile marsh, carefully sculpting a lily pad by hand.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020

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