How to Use woodblock in a Sentence

woodblock

noun

• She made a woodblock print.
• On the fourth, a series of woodblock prints in black-and-white.
  — Amanda Chemeche, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2023
• Make the stamp by gluing strips of crafts foam to a woodblock.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
• The back of my grandfather’s skull is as flat as a woodblock.
  — Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
• In the 1830s, when it was made, a woodblock print in Edo—now Tokyo—cost roughly the same as a bowl of noodles.
  — Susan Delson, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• The show is small, consisting of just 18 woodblock prints.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Above the bed was a woodblock print of squirrels huddling on a winter branch.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2018
• Above the bed was a woodblock print of squirrels huddling on a winter branch.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
• The paintings have the look of liquefied woodblock prints, firm and flowing at once.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• The third is funny, with woodblocks and even a typewriter.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• On a visit to Japan, he was introduced to the ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, of the master artist Hokusai.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Japonisme,’’ a craze for all things Japanese, was the result, and the Western vogue for woodblock prints was a big part of it.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 31 May 2020
• Simon showed us prints that the artist Ryan Schneider had made with chainsaw-cut woodblocks.
  — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• The artist’s original creation is a woodblock print donning ink and subtle shades of beige, white and blue.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2022
• In Japan, snow was both subject and symbol in woodblock prints, where the washi paper was sometimes left bare to create a field of white.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• Samuels employs woodblock prints, drawings, and words on layers of paper and silk.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
• Case in point: The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, a woodblock print that shows a lady going to third base with a couple of octopuses.
  — Cady Drell, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2017
• Supplementing the huge woodblocks are nearly 100 prints that scale from little to tiny.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Many of the woodblock prints were lost or destroyed, as Obata sought to select just one to create his limited edition of 100 prints.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
• Each piece is a single unique print, exhibited with the woodblock it was created from.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The most popular are stretched canvases, woodblock prints, and metal prints.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2022
• Close at hand, one of Katsushika Hokusai’s historic woodblock prints of Mount Fuji is on display.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
• The woodblock print depicts a giant wave crashing into a trio of boats off the coast of Kanagawa, but there’s been a lot of debate over the years as to what kind of wave exactly is depicted in the piece.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2019
• The woodblock pulse is sometimes taken up by clanging cowbell, slashed chords, or the ominous, clocklike ticking of bowsticks against strings.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• Make your own woodblock print at the tiny Kamigata Ukiyoe Museum, which feels more like a house and contains historic artworks, plus workshops on the top floor.
  — Danielle Demetriou, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2020
• To me, this 1917 woodblock print, in which a women gracefully shields herself from a sun shower, conveys the fragile beauty of gardens in early spring,...
  — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2017
• Her work has the look of a woodblock print (intentionally) and provide a deep dive into knowing what’s underfoot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• Astrup would return to this scene several times, including in his woodblock prints.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 26 June 2021
• These motifs are printed on a single piece of paper using woodblocks and then hand-colored using stencils.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 June 2018
• These stick figures remind me of fishermen in an old Japanese woodblock print, their histories and identities dissolved by the low light and the immensity of their stage.
  — Chandrahas Choudhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024