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Antonyms for graven image


Grammar : Noun



Definition of graven image

  • As in golden calf : noun materialistic goal
  • As in idol : noun person greatly admired
Example sentences :
  • She faced Hendricks, who had stood there like a graven image, watching her.
  • Extract from : « Priestess of the Flame » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • "I ain't exactly a graven image, now that you mention it," he admitted.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Darn him, like a graven image there, the only mute, immovable thing in that turmoil!
  • Extract from : « The Million-Dollar Suitcase » by Alice MacGowan
  • Louisa might as well have been a graven image for all the response she gave.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • The Indian stared at him like a graven image, but vouchsafed no reply.
  • Extract from : « A Mating in the Wilds » by Ottwell Binns
  • Not a graven image, scarcely a picture, remained in any of them.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Grasshopper » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • Her voice was colorless, like the speech which might be expected from a graven image.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Witness » by George Gibbs
  • When they got up she said, How could you pray to that graven image?
  • Extract from : « The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6 » by Augustus J. C. Hare
  • Some one spoke of him afterwards as looking like a "graven image."
  • Extract from : « The Passion for Life » by Joseph Hocking
  • For the Commandement is, "Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any graven image."
  • Extract from : « Leviathan » by Thomas Hobbes

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