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Six example sentences with effigy, each labelled with its topic.
The gallery's oldest piece is a wax effigy of a duchess, complete with real hair, glass eyes, and painted lace.
Art
Above the tomb lies a stone effigy of the knight, hands folded, a small dog carved at the feet.
History
Visitors line up to photograph the bronze effigy in the cathedral crypt, worn smooth where thousands of hands have touched it.
Travel
The knight's tomb in the poem bears an effigy so lifelike that the pilgrim mistakes it for a sleeping man.
Literature
The wax effigy in the museum scene is so convincing that viewers assume the actor is standing still.
Movies
Protesters carried an effigy of the governor through the capital, its papier-mache head nodding above the crowd.
Politics
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