How to Use diptych in a Sentence

diptych

noun
  • One is a diptych of a ship before and after its wreckage.
    — Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Howey points to a diptych of Roy Lichtenstein posters in the kitchen.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 2 July 2024
  • From that diptych emerged another.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The piece works as a cross-cutting diptych between 1920 and the present day.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The diptych originated with a phone call from Sendak that began with a quiz.
    — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • Jagger didn’t offer any specifics, though, on the ideal diptych of years for a depiction of the band.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • Single versions of the diptych are available as well, and those start at just £199.
    — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 7 July 2018
  • Traditionally, mug shots come with both frontal and profile views—a diptych.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The two-part diptych artwork features a girl and boy walking hand-in-hand in black and white, alongside the title quote in red script.
    — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 3 Sep. 2018
  • And instead of staging the diptych over two days, Desplechin has condensed it into one evening.
    — Laura Cappelle, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Only two other works from the diptych are currently accounted for.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • This desert terrain is the world of Harrow, too; the novels form a diptych of devastation.
    — Anthony Domestico, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
  • In a room at the French consul general’s, a diptych of palms as long-legged as Paris runway models.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Digital glitches appear as black bars that read like redactions, and nod to the bullet holes in the original diptych.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The scene in which the erotic disaster unfolds forms a sort of diptych with the deflowering scene in Lessons.
    — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
  • But the black cat who gazes outward from the bottom of a diptych just emphasizes the spectator's essential solitude.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Director Mike Reilly does a lucid job of sorting out the play’s diptych structure.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • The 10-by-8-inch work is part of a diptych made up of eight scenes centered on the passion and crucifixion of Christ.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The painting is part of a diptych, which included eight scenes depicting the crucifixion and passion of Christ.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
  • By 1775, the Collegiate Church was in dire need of funds for a restoration and sold the diptych, breaking it apart.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The lithograph diptych is by America Martin and was also sourced through 1stDibs.
    — Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Clasen bought an Eric Vallely photo of a diver in the ocean with his fins up, cut it in two, and turned it into a diptych to hang in the living room.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The final image was a diptych, showing Strangio reflected in the mirror of his bathroom, and a pair of gray slacks, a white shirt, and a plaid tie hanging on a door.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Even leaving aside Lie’s presence, the two films are in conversation with each other, a diptych about female desire and ambition.
    — Vulture, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The diptych begins with an artist onstage for a public conversation, then floats in and out of internal monologues and exchanges between the artist and his censor.
    — Philip Tinari, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Together, the stew and the kebobs present the guest with a brilliant diptych, two distinct angles from which to appreciate the facets of a complex flavor profile.
    — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
  • Carcasses of birds and a small rabbit lie next to flower arrangements in lyrical funerary arrays, and a diptych shows the withering of dogweed leaves over just two days.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Even better, an expansive diptych in acrylic from 1984 that will take over an entire gallery wall will make that experience immersive.
    — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The ads, which break Monday, are presented in diptych form with one Shrigley drawing matched with the corresponding Meier image.
    — Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024
  • On its surface, this disquieting diptych about male anxiety has the feel of, say, an Asghar Farhadi movie, a moral dilemma urging forth a thriller plot.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025

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