Examples of diorama in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The reader learns of William Temple Hornaday, who killed a number of rare bison in the West in 1886 for a D.C. diorama before starting a captive breeding program to save the species. — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021 On Tuesday, an Ohio sheriff's office posted photos of a holiday diorama created by an inmate at the Butler County Correctional Complex on social media. — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2021 The gingerbread carousel replaces the same team’s grand prize winner last year — a diorama of Santa’s workshop on the day after Christmas. — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2021 Compiled by Tirzah and Levi over a ten-year period, and pulling from both personal relationships and the relationships of friends, the album’s fragments cohere into a tattered interpersonal diorama. — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2021 To the left, a short hallway leads to a life-size diorama of an Arctic trading post, complete with lanterns, a cot, a bear pelt and a picturesque window view. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021 In the image, Cotton sits next to an in-progress diorama of birds in a Nile marsh, carefully sculpting a lily pad by hand. — Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020 Its ornate pedestal, in the form of a ship’s prow, contains a colorful diorama of the view voyagers to New York would enjoy once the statue was installed. — New York Times, 19 June 2021 Better for a museum diorama showing how field workers dressed 100 years ago. — New York Times, 28 June 2021

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