How to Use biomorphic in a Sentence
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The biomorphic shape is futuristic, but the smoked glass is very ’70s.
—Katy Schneider, The Cut, 17 Sep. 2017
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Bruno built the biomorphic 110-ton structure by hand and lived in it for seven months before his death.
—Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2022
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All those things surely shaped her art, but biomorphic forms seem foremost in her work.
—Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
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Atop each plinth, Corkery positions a biomorphic fiberboard cutout, squirmy in the mode of Hans Arp.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2019
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Unmentioned in the commission meeting was Arrechea, who designed a pair of biomorphic works to be installed over the eastern end of the lake.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
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Smooth and organic-looking, this Doug could be taken for a biomorphic sculpture.
—Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
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Indeed, at the Met’s show, that sustained viewing of biomorphic forms and cluttered limbs can unsettle a person.
—Sophie Madeline Dess, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
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One of Krause’s resembles a lacy photogram; another squirms with blue and pink biomorphic strands, spreading like ivy.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
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On view are works with a kooky utopian twist, such as the blobby, biomorphic sculptures of New York artist Thomas Barger, which double as shelves for storage and display.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2020
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Scholars have likened his biomorphic imagery to the ancient rock formations of his native Brittany.
—Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022
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The 1998 Armageddon — in which a bunch of oil-rig drillers set out to save Earth from a strangely glowing, almost biomorphic killer asteroid — lives on mostly as a hate-watch favorite.
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2020
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One of Burle Marx’s signature elements was the use of biomorphic paving patterns, with walkways functioning as part of the site’s aesthetics, not just a way through it, Forrest says.
—Washington Post, 30 July 2019
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On the fifth floor, an informal office and meeting area features long, curving timber benches and biomorphic built-in shelving.
—Natalia Rachlin, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
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Even before Vogue revisited these biomorphic dots, celebrities had caught on, though.
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2020
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This fieldwork led to the discovery of the new Nazca lines, which feature 40 biomorphic glyphs depicting animals, plants or people.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2014
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The visual volley is complemented by similar rhythms among biomorphic blobs whose shapes echo one another’s and simple patterns that look as if they have been cut from the same cloth.
—David Pagel, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
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Slurries of paint pushed around the canvas create biomorphic forms and outline letters, but words are truncated, and letters arrive backwards, as if the meaning of the text is no longer important.
—OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
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Nonetheless, a biomorphic vibe still defines the residence.
—Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 25 Mar. 2015
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One clear example is a 2009 biomorphic abstract ceramic sculpture fired with a matte-textured glaze of intense cobalt blue.
—Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 17 Feb. 2018
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Originally, the chair was made with fiberglass, a strong, pliable material which lent itself well to creating the biomorphic shell shapes.
—Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
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The bright colors and biomorphic forms of Alexander Calder’s sculpture and mobiles are instantly recognizable.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
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The public and private spaces at Phantasma are rendered in lushly biomorphic Art Nouveau lines, and the arch of the show palace's stage cleverly incorporates a stylized evocation of the Phantom's mask.
—Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
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Soon enough the visuals settle into a general biomorphic cheesiness.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
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Gerard's renowned for launching a renaissance in Dutch design in the early '70s, breaking away from the solid-wood furniture the Netherlands was known for to incorporate plusher, more biomorphic (and contemporary) shapes.
—Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 10 Sep. 2018
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Michael Gessner’s paper, wood and wire constructions also suggest biomorphic forms, emulating leaves, wings and insects.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
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Does the painting suggest mathematical or biomorphic ideas?
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
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His sinuous, biomorphic chairs, tables, desks, pianos, clocks and vanities, which resembled giant teeth, a human tongue, elephants’ feet and human forms, started as freestyle drawings on rag paper.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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There, working with local artisans, Pasqualetti launched their own line of jewelry, featuring biomorphic shapes made using leftover stone from the interiors industry and found objects.
—Vogue, 8 Oct. 2021
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Although Bacon sometimes downplayed Picasso’s influence, the older artist’s biomorphic figures and scrambled anatomies are an obvious precursor to Bacon’s figures.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
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Gravity-defying lightness struts its wondrous stuff in her abstract yet suggestively biomorphic pictures of suns (or sunflowers), planets (or soap bubbles), flora (or fauna), figures (or doodles), butterflies (or X-marks-the-spot gestures).
—David Pagel, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
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