How to use "effigy" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "effigy" in popular movie and book plots

  • The next day, the town burns an effigy of Durant in the street.  - Scabs (Hell on Wheels)
  • Pietari enters Piiparinen's house, and finds that Piiparinen's son Juuso is also gone, with a straw effigy in his place.  - Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
  • He is sitting on a hill beside an effigy of the crucified Christ when he meets Olalla for the last time.  - Olalla (short story)
  • Toomak saves Nala whilst the mute girl stabs an effigy of Rool, sending him falling to his death.  - Creatures the World Forgot
  • An effigy of Flora stands to one side.  - Merry Mount (opera)
  • When the pyre is lit, Edmund panics and drops the doll – a small, hooded effigy which bears a striking resemblance to the Witchsmeller.  - Witchsmeller Pursuivant
  • They offer to use a holy effigy and prayer to assist her sick father, they begin to pray.  - The Phantom of Liberty
  • Simultaneously, the voodoo girl impales his effigy on a spike.  - Survival Island
  • Pup laughs when Dolly shows him an effigy of Myra: a rag doll, about fifteen inches high, with knitted nylon skin and rust-coloured wool hair.  - The Killing Doll
  • He searches her house, finding busts she has carved of him and Number Two, and smashes a lifelike effigy representing the sleeping Professor.  - The General (The Prisoner)
  • He returns to find Zoe has set a mannequin on fire in effigy of him.  - The Bachelor (1999 film)
  • Using an effigy of Jessica, the Sabreur takes control of her and draws her to him.  - I Walked with a Zombie
  • When Homer visits Moe's Tavern, he sees an effigy of himself being burnt by his friends who worked at the plant.  - HOMR
  • Senthil then opens a trapdoor to let Saravanan escape, and an effigy of Vettaiyan gets burnt instead.  - Chandramukhi
  • Suddenly, Hilary crashes her van into the school's huge effigy of Jesus.  - Saved!
  • Giudizio sits an effigy of the "Old Witch of Winter" in a chair on the stack and Gradisca is given the honour of setting it aflame.  - Amarcord

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