How to Use figural in a Sentence

figural

adjective
  • The holders come in a set of two, adorned with figural bunnies.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The back rest is decorated with a lion flanked by figural finials and the curved frame possesses oak leaves.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Several of the figural depictions show a type of pattern or sash on the torso.
    — CNN, 4 May 2022
  • Binnie is a figural painter whose work toes the uncanny line between tragedy and comedy.
    — Dallas News, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The figural birds are crafted in platinum and 18-karat gold with gemstones — appearing to perch upon the wearer.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025
  • As we are never returned to any figural baseline, our eyes are increasingly ungrounded.
    — Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
  • My Body, showcasing three decades of Grossman’s figural practice, extends to a show of the same name on view at the Chelsea gallery.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • There's something majestic about abstract or figural stained glass, which lets light in and offers privacy as well as colorful expression.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The artist provided The Dance and La Musique, massive things though figural and not immersive and not an homage to nature.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Especially a table lamp, which does double duty as a figural object in conversation with other elements of a room and, of course, as a source of light and warmth.
    — Ming Thompson, Curbed, 14 July 2021
  • The Temple also had early medieval ancestors called figural or figured poems.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The company dates back to the late 1930s and is known for its sweet candles in figural shapes such as Santas, snowmen, and carolers.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Austria, Germany, and Japan became famous for exporting figural bulbs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The most beautiful gallery is one currently occupied by figural sculpture from Central and West Africa.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2018
  • As captured in the show—where portraits, narrative scenes and figure studies share space with just two landscapes—the collection was shaped by its owners’ personal preference for figural imagery.
    — Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2022
  • This theme is represented through the figural image in the bulk of the exhibition's works, which aim to present subjective views of the black experience from a wide-reaching global perspective.
    — Kate Sierzputowski, Chicago Reader, 9 May 2018
  • But for his own figural edification, Degas made lots of small sculptures, mostly of dancers, horses and bathers, subjects that also populated his paintings.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Pollock is praised for pouring and dripping, as though inviting randomness, but one senses the significant amount of figural underpainting that exists beneath the surface.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • But, almost always, community groups want a figural monument to commemorate someone who is more important to that community.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Some hilyas were strictly without any figural representation, while others contained a drawing of the Kaaba, the holy shrine in Mecca, or a rose that symbolized the beauty of the prophet.
    — Suleyman Dost, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The cartoon displays many of the things Raphael did brilliantly—groups of people in dialogue; varied figural types, young and old, delicate and robust; and figures elegantly distributed in space.
    — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 14 June 2019
  • Higgins and her colleagues, though, are concentrating on figural graffiti, which range from humans and animals (often representing a god) to game boards likely carved by Isis’ priests for diversion during their off hours.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Black Panther Wakanda Forever figural mini backpack uses a unique three-dimensional, geometric design to form the shape of a roaring black panther.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The plaque shares a widespread Medieval use of bold figural gestures and enlarged hands and eyes, a vocabulary found from the contemporaneous sculpture at Vézelay, France, all the way into the 13th century.
    — E.a. Carmean Jr., WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018

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