How to Use diorama in a Sentence

diorama

noun

• 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
• People take the shells and make them as main characters in their diorama.
  — David Sharos, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024
• 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
• Raised in Manhattan’s Washington Heights, Flack was interested in art from the age of five, when a teacher charged her class with making dioramas.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024