How to Use maquette in a Sentence

maquette

noun
  • It was sold to me as an original piece with some maquettes of the bullets.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • As a great side item, little maquettes of these scenes fill up another room.
    — Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 5 May 2017
  • The plaster maquettes were smashed into tiny pieces.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • From the renderings, a maquette, a small-scale model, five feet long, was made.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
  • These are notes, maquettes, drawings and sketches, some of which have never been seen in public.
    — Anne Tschida, miamiherald, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The stories are breathtakingly small, as though the original show has been shrunk down into a vivid maquette.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
  • The imbas drew curators’ eyes and sparked a studio epiphany when Leigh placed a small ceramic head on the maquette of a hut.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Visiting del Toro’s house one night, Hill noticed a maquette of a gilled man, which del Toro explained was for his new movie.
    — Katey Rich, HWD, 15 Dec. 2017
  • After leading the group to the crumbling maquette at the cemetery, the duo gave a formal presentation on the results of their research efforts.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • He’s made a maquette of a piece bearing two paletas, one painted with the Mexican flag and the other with the American flag.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Wood could have used a bar of Masonite and glue to compensate for the imbalances, but that would have diminished the accuracy of the maquette.
    — Peter Libbey, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In one corner is an animator’s drawing desk with a schedule, maquettes of the Lilo and Stitch characters, lamp and stool.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Toogood has long worked with maquettes, or preliminary miniature models made from castoff materials.
    — Samuel Rutter, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The filmmakers create maquettes for each character, at different ages.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Those cabins are sited on James Benning’s property in Pine Flat, but maquettes of them have been shown in museums all over the world.
    — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 2 May 2018
  • Nearby, there’s a maquette of an unrealized Picasso sculpture.
    — Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The exhibition retraces her more than 60-year career through drawings and designs, prototypes and sketches, maquettes and photographs.
    — Andrea Onate, WWD, 26 Sep. 2024
  • In the aftermath of this upheaval, Pinch and Bannon returned, for reassurance, to a small balsa-wood maquette of the home that Pinch had made during the planning phase.
    — Ellie Pithers, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • Moss’ team now consists an operations person, two project managers who are industrial engineers, a master 3D artist working on molds and maquettes, and two young artists.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The exhibit in the Silpe gallery at U of H is a collection of archival documents, maps of the river and maquettes of bridges across the river and models of animal habitats.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 June 2019
  • However, in a gallery reached via three stories of circular stairs in the Grand Palais’ quiet south-western end, the building’s walls are lined with dazzling, full-scale, ink-on-paper maquettes of the cathedral’s new windows.
    — Caroline Roux, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The exhibition will present preparatory drawings and a maquette for Flying Dragon alongside other pieces from 1975.
    — Maximilíano Durón For Artnews, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Inside artist Chas Fagan’s modest home studio in Myers Park, dozens of little maquettes — one-eighth size sculpture models — mingle with busts of past presidents, a pilot and even a pope.
    — Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The royals will see a scale model of the Queen Elizabeth Memorial and meet the artists producing works for the site, before both the scale model and the artists' maquettes remain on public display for people to see.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The only exception is the room in the back where Pendleton, 40, paints; there, inks have drizzled onto strips of rosin paper covering the floor, and the counters are crowded with bottles of spray paint and exhibition maquettes.
    — Nicole Acheampong, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • Ryan, who is Orange County based, will begin the conceptual design phase of the memorial, including the preparation of detailed sketches and a 12-inch maquette.
    — Magda Liszewska, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2026
  • After examining the maquette, Spielberg gave Rombaldi the go-ahead to begin building the animatronic version.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Early on, Duggal sculpted a maquette that served as a character reference for the character which also gave everyone something physical to interact with, such as determining lighting.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The Pixar Place Hotel Art Gallery is hosting a Hoppers exhibit that traces the film’s creative journey with early sketches, concept art and character maquettes that helped shape the film.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Chase-Ribaud submitted the maquette to an art competition in Truth’s Massachusetts hometown in 1999, but another artist won the commission.
    — Wendy Bellion, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022

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