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life-size
[ lahyf-sahyz ]
adjective
- of the natural size of an object, person, etc., in life; of the actual size of a living original:
a life-size statue.
life-size
adjective
- representing actual size
Word History and Origins
Origin of life-size1
Example Sentences
Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.
In other news, black and white pin-up shots are now officially less valuable than life-size Tiger Beat tear outs.
Scenes of various moments—eating, showering, being interrogated—are meticulously replicated almost in life size.
In one room of the exhibition, his vivid, life-size plan for the Vence Chapel includes the outline of the door to his studio.
Pistoletto uses life-size mirrors as a base on which he adds painted figures or photographic prints.
A girl of forty-two weeks showed the same excitement at the sight of a life-size painting of a cat as at that of a real cat.
Before the principal entrance, to which several flights of steps lead, stand two figures of elephants above life-size.
My own contributions consisted of life-size sketches of my wife, myself, and Bruno.
The paper was wrought in great panels, with life-size figures of orientals in the center.
It was a piet, a life-size statue of the Blessed Virgin set within a semicircle of rocks.
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