How to Use life-size in a Sentence

life-size

adjective

• The current life-size piece is his sixth in the series.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
• The Man poster on one wall, and above the door frame, a life-size ticket stub from that last night of the band’s 2018 tour.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 22 June 2023
• Two broncos served as beacons on the rooftop, and a life-size horse stood guard on the sidewalk in front of the shop.
  — Amy Bizzarri, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
• The home’s most iconic feature is a life-size statue of a buck grazing at the front of the mansion.
  — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 3 Mar. 2023
• Jaramillo and his team have built two life-size models of the beastly snake to show its sheer size.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• The whole place was filled with Alien residue, including a life-size Xenomorph figure.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024
• Holes on the course include a life-size beer pong, air hockey, roulette, Connect Four and a true/false hole.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2023
• FaceTime video tiles are life-size; as new people join, the call expands in your room.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 7 June 2023
• Make life-size drawings of each other on the back of some old wrapping paper.
  — Jennifer Wolf, Parents, 30 July 2024
• One such artist, Dave Tovey, showed the heir to the throne around a life-size sculpture of a house, crafted out of an old Peugeot 206 in which Tovey once lived.
  — Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
• Two life-size cardboard cutouts of Narendra Modi posed against a wall.
  — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
• On the wall adjacent to the tent room the Marquess installed a huge clock with the life-size figures Gog and Magog striking the hours.
  — Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2023
• But the real collector's item came in the form of life-size cutouts, featuring a few of the fan-favorite roles in the drama.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
• Nestled in a back corner, a life-size bottle of Chance invited guests to strike a pose.
  — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
• Beside him was a life-size digital asset of a sedan, the inside of which appeared to be on fire.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• The life-size statue of the late Winehouse, who belonged to the Jewish faith, was installed in 2014 at Camden Market.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
• The man shares his story via a video recording that is presented in life-size on a screen at eye level with the viewer.
  — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 19 June 2024
• One such item — a life-size wooden figure trapped in a frozen scream — becomes crucial to Darcy’s quest to root out the truth about the murder.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
• Inside the museum, the awards dinner took place in the Hall of Ocean Life underneath a life-size whale sculpture.
  — Jaden Thompson, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
• The piece is a life-size and lifelike sculpture of the artist himself, curled up in the fetal position and trapped in a plastic bag like a goldfish.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 11 Oct. 2024
• Ocean researchers give us an inside look at what a great white shark feeding frenzy looks like from the inside of a fake life-size whale.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Find 10 life-size dinosaurs, including a 46-foot-tall T. rex, placed along a half-mile nature trail called the Laughlin Loop.
  — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
• Inside, a life-size cutout of Trump had been placed by the entrance, next to an American flag tacked onto a yellow wall.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• Soon a handsome statue head, a little larger than life-size, is extracted from what’s left of the wall.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
• At one point, Gomez’s Mabel sits down next to a life-size doll that bears a striking resemblance to Swift, complete with blonde hair and trim bangs.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2024
• Scherzinger posed next to life-size trolls while dressed in solidarity: a fluffy, all-pink getup.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 15 Nov. 2023
• The painting is eighty-nine inches high by thirty-nine inches wide, almost life-size.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
• Stroll the delightful riverfront promenade, play life-size chess, or just grab a bench and watch Germany at play.
  — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2023
• During the show, 24 film-accurate and life-size dinosaurs will stomp and run around the stage, all operated by the dinoteers.
  — Maddie Browning, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• The show then shifts pace as Beyoncé sits perched like Aphrodite in a life-size, rotating translucent seashell.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 3 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024