How to Use diorama in a Sentence

diorama

noun
  • People take the shells and make them as main characters in their diorama.
    David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024
  • Like the parakeets, the dioramas are too easy a metaphor.
    Leslie Kendall Dye, Longreads, 23 June 2018
  • The dioramas on view unite the folksy whimsy of arts and crafts with a dark sense of humor.
    Maxine Marshall, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The 80-year-old dioramas now have a state-of-the-art lighting system.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Quinn tells Meah about all the tricks the old preparators used on the dioramas in this hall, the oldest of which date to the 1940s: marble dust for snow.
    Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • Or that in the vestibule of the church, tucked away from the street in a nook, behind gates, is a brass diorama meant to honor Vesey and the other founders of the church.
    Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The stage was dressed like an oversized diorama, the view out from a mountain home, through the trees to the valley below.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Her songs are almost like dioramas that have a lot of drapery in them.
    Jenn Pelly, Vulture, 17 May 2024
  • The diorama also comes with a stand, a 40th-anniversary plaque, and a classic quote from the scene.
    Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • All of these dioramas have been carefully thought out with that in mind.
    Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • For one dollar at a yard sale: a shoebox diorama of the moon where the astronauts are built from foil.
    Hieu Minh Nguyen, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2020
  • One poor mark in second grade on a diorama about the pilgrims could derail a whole life.
    Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • One of the current museum's dioramas — the beloved honey bears — will be featured in this part of the gallery.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Playing with our Arie and Kendall rats in front of the diorama of our first date in Paris was too weird and surptrisingly fun.
    Arie Luyendyk Jr., PEOPLE.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • From this scenic perch, Rome unfurls in a diorama of roofs, columns and cupolas.
    Lee Marshall, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The first thing that people notice is the life-size diorama of a Native American and his dwelling.
    Kathi Santora, baltimoresun.com, 23 June 2017
  • The handmade wood furniture sprinkled around the store is also for sale — all the better to show off your Day of the Dead diorama of Kiss, the all-bones band.
    Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Pics of the diorama got so much love online that Whataburger shot a video of Cromwell’s creation for its YouTube channel.
    Madalyn Mendoza, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The Muskrat Group diorama, now on the museum's first floor, will be in the new museum's mixing zones area.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2023
  • Also to be displayed in the new exhibit hall is a 15-by-13-foot Alamo diorama built by Lemon.
    Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • One diorama shows the effect of light color, where less of a bluish, daylight tone still lights the streetscape without washing out the sky so much.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • This will be the second ever showing of the diorama, and Turchyn hopes to find a permanent place to display it.
    Austen Erblat, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • The diorama shows the January women’s march in St. Paul.
    Bob Shaw, The Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2017
  • This gives the biography the at once complex and childlike feel of a diorama.
    Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Her first project at the museum was a diorama of an Aztec marketplace.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The late 1960s was a harsh, destabilizing time for the country, and Sorkin nearly turns it into a droll diorama.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • These eye-catching bats prove that diorama fun shouldn't be confined to inside the pumpkin.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Woman's Day, 16 June 2017
  • Other challenges include a lack of archival footage, forcing the production team to rely on reenactments and dioramas to help illustrate the stories told in the film.
    Eric Guzmán, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024

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