variants
or life-sized
: of natural size : of the size of the original
a life-size statue
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One principal in the district recently bought a handful of games for the school cafeteria and walked in one day to find a group of students playing on a life-size checker board, Smith said.
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Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Nov. 2025
Ray Di Pietro walked up to the life-size photograph hanging on the wall of the Frist Art Museum.
—Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2025
Foundational to this style is the traditional use of hand modeling in clay, creating life-size models of the shapes and surfaces of the vehicles Mazda produces.
—Brett Berk, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2025
For the exhibition, Poindexter collected native kelp/seaweed from the waters near Avalon and created life-size cyanotype photograms printed on flowing silk panels, then layered an underwater soundscape recorded on her dives.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
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Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Nov. 2025
Ray Di Pietro walked up to the life-size photograph hanging on the wall of the Frist Art Museum.
—Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2025
Foundational to this style is the traditional use of hand modeling in clay, creating life-size models of the shapes and surfaces of the vehicles Mazda produces.
—Brett Berk, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2025
For the exhibition, Poindexter collected native kelp/seaweed from the waters near Avalon and created life-size cyanotype photograms printed on flowing silk panels, then layered an underwater soundscape recorded on her dives.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for life-size
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“Life-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-size. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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