How to Use mandala in a Sentence

mandala

noun
  • That’s what makes the mandala more than a pretty thing for people to gawk at.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The public is welcome to view the monks work on the mandala and ask questions.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • One of her most popular items is a macramé mandala dream catcher.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Those who attend will be able to paint ladybugs and mandalas.
    — Courant Community, 25 July 2017
  • For the past five years, Locke has been carving and painting mandalas full-time.
    — Susie Schmank, Indianapolis Star, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Combined with a Savoir bed, the florals arc across the headboard in a bright half mandala.
    — Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 22 Mar. 2021
  • His left hand is covered in a mandala-like tattoo; his right is adorned with a pair of red lips billowing smoke.
    — Jonathan Ringen, Billboard, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The restaurant also has a patio and a large-scale mandala mural in the dining room.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Shalitzin also added a large flower with leaves to the side of her head and one on the top of her head that could be part of a mandala.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The only thing that grounded my buzzing brain was coloring in paper mandalas.
    — Blake Crisses, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
  • The mandala is thought to bring energy and healing to both its makers and the area surrounding it.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Observe no fewer than eight of them at the outskirts of a single eleventh-century Nepalese mandala.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In the courtyard, Guidi instructed children on how to make mandalas.
    — Ellen Olivier, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
  • Teigen turned heads in a feathery, black swan-esque ensemble with a sheer skirt embellished with mandala circles.
    — Catherine Kast, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
  • This mandala could be a petri dish full of menacing microbes, or a murmuring imagination on the edge of sleep.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Near the center of a large, faraway disk resembling a celestial mandala, a young planet is in the process of being born.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2016
  • For my recent birthday, my best childhood girlfriends created a mandala for me out of wildflowers after a hike to the beach.
    — Christina Pérez, Vogue, 22 June 2017
  • All are invited to watch this authentic visual art project take shape day by day and attend the special events and lectures that are part of the mandala project.
    — Gerri Marmer, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The mandala was created by the shamans and represented the four elements—fire, water, earth, air.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Craft a mandala Send the kids outside to collect an assortment of items, including leaves, flowers, and stones.
    — Michelle Crouch, Parents, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Like its historical predecessors, this mandala is a cosmic chart, but one of a cosmos in distress.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Two girls, both under 5, began arranging the fruit into an elaborate mandala atop a wooden tray.
    — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 18 May 2017
  • Each villa that the characters stayed in had a theme—each had a color palette, that was paired with a mandala by artist Max Patté.
    — Town & Country, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Mandalas are sacred circles consisting of geometric shapes with no beginning or end.
    — Michelle Jenkins, idahostatesman, 28 July 2017
  • Lines of floating colors slowly materialize onto the screen, like a mandala coming to life.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The cutout is echoed by a related but not identical pattern on the floor, drawn with white sand like a Tibetan Buddhist mandala.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The mandala, in a general sense, is a symbolic form that represents order, harmony and unity of the whole.
    — Nino Letteriello, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The resulting battery is simpler to manufacture, requires fewer parts, and looks a bit like a mandala of metallic shingles.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
  • One in the pediatric oncology outpatient area on the 8th floor is a geometric pattern called a mandala.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2020
  • In Israel, a Shema mandala would concentrate on the declaration of faith.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021

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