statuesque

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Recent Examples of statuesque Dorit arrives first and Boz, as statuesque as all the halls of the Louvre, comes in second. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025 By most accounts, Swift is 5-foot-10, about the same height as another notably statuesque star, Zendaya. Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025 To step onto a red carpet, enveloped in her sculptural, statuesque folds of fabric has become a rite of passage for young stars scaling new heights–the dress functioning as a symbolic on-ramp for the beloved ingénue turned bombshell. Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 2 Dec. 2024 Of late, the current team can only demonstrate slow, statuesque and stifling soccer. Ben Church, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for statuesque
Recent Examples of Synonyms for statuesque
Adjective
  • But where the book had the benefit of MacDonald’s beautiful and searching interior monologue, the movie chooses to articulate her pain — as well as her refusal to process it — from the outside in.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
  • SciAm always educates and delights me, and inspires a sense of awe for our vast, beautiful universe.
    Max Springer, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Radcliffe is Newland Archer, a handsome, progressive, and intelligent society gentleman who craves a deeper and more passionate connection to the world and someone in it.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Fulfill a procreation contract with a handsome member of the ruling class or join a magnetically attractive outcast in a brewing rebellion.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • For more gorgeous pieces from the MacKenzie-Childs sale, check out our top picks below with everything from shimmery vanity trays to vibrant kitchenware, floral rugs, patterned furniture, and wall decor.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The film is gorgeous, with a color grade that reminded me of how Nicholas Ray movies looked on a CRT.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ay, the superb slyness of that last response!
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Kansas’ sixth-year man Jalon Daniels put superb touches on a pair of touchdown passes.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • People want to include crape myrtles and roses-of-Sharon as their privacy plants, for example, and both of those, while lovely in summer, would be bare and drab in the winter.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • It’s been really lovely, also exhausting.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Five weeks after going public with a stunning 250% first-day pop, Figma is coming back down to Earth.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Players will visit stunning new locations, solve intricate puzzles, battle dangerous cultists, and encounter an epic new enemy in a classically thrilling Indiana Jones adventure.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Deutsche Küche Apple Frangipane Tarts For an elegant dessert option, the $4 Deutsche Küche Apple Frangipane Tarts bring a European flair to the table.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Here, the atmosphere is upscale and elegant; perhaps one of the nicest Chinese dining rooms in Charlotte, despite the staff still trying to get a handle on hostess, service and wait time logistics.
    Shindy Chen, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • They can be used in place of dill leaves or in combination with them for an attractive presentation.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One of the very attractive features of the amplituhedron, one that was noticed right away by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, was that these two features, unitarity and locality, are necessary (but not fundamental) consequences that can be derived by using the amplituhedron framework.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Statuesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statuesque. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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