to sculpture

Examples

• All

• She loves to sculpture beautiful figures from marble during her art classes.

• He plans to sculpture a lifelike statue of his favorite musician this summer.

• And then you can go ahead and bronze sculpt your face.

• So just I'm doing a free sculpting and make it cool.

• And she taught me about, you know, going like this and kind of sculpting your face, you know, giving it a little massage.

  Vogue

• But if you really want a bathing suit that sculpts you to the gods, it's for you.

• And this knee mask is designed to sculpt the chin area.

  Cosmopolitan UK

• So I'm going to just start sculpting my cheekbones.

• I'm just going to sculpt out the cheeks.

• They were told they should go and see the Rokaur, these huge pillars sculptured by the sea, scattered along the northern coast.

  Bergman Island (2021)

Synonyms

C

to carve

vsto sculpture

272 2.1

Cut shapes and patterns into wood, stone and other hard materials

includes shaping by cutting but emphasizes creating a finished figure or object

S

to sculpt

vsto sculpture

57 4.3

To make a statue from stone, wood, or clay by cutting and shaping it

focuses on making figures specifically from stone or wood

M

to mold

vsto sculpture

• US

35 3.2

To shape something by hand or in a container

uses cutting or shaping away material rather than forming by hand or a form

C

to chisel

vsto sculpture

19 5.1

To shape wood or stone using a flat metal blade

is broader, not limited to one tool or method of shaping materials

S

to sculp

vsto sculpture

1 9.5

To make a statue by shaping materials like clay or stone

focuses on shaping or cutting materials into figures rather than general craft

Antonyms

D

to destroy

∞ 1.0

Damage something so badly that it cannot be used or fixed

F

to flatten

23 2.6

Make something flat and smooth by pressing it

Compounds

C

clay sculpture

1 3.4

A work of art made by shaping clay, like a figure or pot

G

glass sculpture

1 3.9

An art object made by shaping glass into a form you can see and touch

K

kinetic sculpture

• Specialized

6.5

A work of art that moves, often by wind or machine, to show changing shapes

N

nude sculpture

5.6

A statue showing a naked person made as art

How Shaped

to model

102 4.1

to sculpture

2 4.6

to whittle

13 6.2

to carve

272 2.1

to chip

104 2.3

Surface Forms

Etymology