How to Use life-size in a Sentence

life-size

adjective
Definition of life-sizenext
  • 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

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