How to Use life-size in a Sentence

life-size

adjective
  • His largest piece is a life-size lamppost.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The kids are sure to love the life-size puppets and jamming tunes.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Over the last two decades, it’s grown to 120 life-size figures.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
  • The life-size cows in multiple state pavilions?
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • Visitors can even meet a life-size dragon.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Jaramillo and his team have built two life-size models of the beastly snake to show its sheer size.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Make life-size drawings of each other on the back of some old wrapping paper.
    — Jennifer Wolf, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • There's also a life-size cardboard cut-out of the legendary man around for selfies.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • FaceTime video tiles are life-size; as new people join, the call expands in your room.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 7 June 2023
  • Two broncos served as beacons on the rooftop, and a life-size horse stood guard on the sidewalk in front of the shop.
    — Amy Bizzarri, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
  • So our artists recreated all the graphics, which means this is the first time this has ever been life-size.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In one picture, a man poses in front of a life-size Minions cardboard cutout.
    — Matt Burgess, Wired News, 14 May 2025
  • Two life-size cardboard cutouts of Narendra Modi posed against a wall.
    — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
  • Starr always seemed like the friendliest and most life-size of the four Beatles.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The home’s most iconic feature is a life-size statue of a buck grazing at the front of the mansion.
    — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The life-size figures are made from an invasive weed found in India's forests.
    — Greg Allen, NPR, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The painting is eighty-nine inches high by thirty-nine inches wide, almost life-size.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The drawings are to be displayed next to the scented trees in standard pictures and life-size cutouts.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The whole place was filled with Alien residue, including a life-size Xenomorph figure.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
  • Beside him was a life-size digital asset of a sedan, the inside of which appeared to be on fire.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Don created a life-size rhino out of metal, duct tape and tin foil and installed it in the backyard.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • One project was a human-size gerbil feeder and another a life-size origami horse.
    — Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
  • At the top right is the head of the dry river bed — where the life-size heron statue is — and the bed curves down to the driveway on the left.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
  • Nestled in a back corner, a life-size bottle of Chance invited guests to strike a pose.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There’s even a cave with life-size sand sculptures and 3-D holiday paintings.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Soon a handsome statue head, a little larger than life-size, is extracted from what’s left of the wall.
    — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • The man shares his story via a video recording that is presented in life-size on a screen at eye level with the viewer.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 19 June 2024
  • After an old Mickey dies, a new one is spat out, life-size 3D-printer-style.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Ocean researchers give us an inside look at what a great white shark feeding frenzy looks like from the inside of a fake life-size whale.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Holes on the course include a life-size beer pong, air hockey, roulette, Connect Four and a true/false hole.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023

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