How to use "figure" in a sentence

Before the breeze blew out the match he made out a figure in a dress: it was a woman.

Marius ran to the gate and was just in time to see the figure of Eponine, Thenardier's daughter, disappearing into the shadows at the end of the street.

He walks up the corridor to the front desk and is about to shout for an officer when he sees the tall figure standing at the door of the police station

"Do you have her confession?" the figure says.

"Do you have Miss Thornton's confession?" the figure repeats.

The figure nods

Then it's over." And the impossible figure turns to leave.

But the figure turns and smiles

Just look at the view out there." And from the large glass windows they can see the majestic figure of the Statue of Liberty as the ship slowly moves away from the port of New York and heads into the deep of the ocean.

The lamp in the corner of the room looks like the tall, silent figure of a murderer, and the coat on the back of your door has hands that almost touch you.

Then another figure, dressed in black, closed the shutter

I knew her tall, slim figure, her small face and clear white skin

Then the figure moved and I saw that it was Mrs Danvers.

She was quaking, gasping about a man dressed all in black, the monstrous figure from her dream.

The burning, scarlet eyes of the monstrous figure in the drawing seemed to follow her.

She must have glimpsed the grotesque figure of Death on the cover of the magazine when Danny first brought the issue home from the newsstand.

But we ought to lie low until we can figure this out."

"I can't figure why they'd come for me first."

"I figure you've got the wrong place," Tom said, stepping out of the doorway, into the garage, reaching for the button that would raise the big door.

"I'm still trying to figure that one

I think it would be wise for us to stay up there for a couple of days, even after we've talked to Bellicosti, until we can figure a way out of this mess

In the Mercedes, in the darkness, with the doors locked, she said, "No wonder we haven't been able to figure it out!"

But how do you figure Danny's alive? That doesn't necessarily follow."

That explains why I dreamed about the hideous figure of Death in this comic book

"I figure Elliot filed a false flight plan to throw you off his trail." He was perversely proud of Stryker's cleverness.

They figure there's something wrong with the little boy's body, something odd that we can't afford to let them see

They'll figure he's involved in the cover-up."

She was peripherally aware of a soft, fire like glow from beyond the cleft, and of a mysterious figure silhouetted against that reddish backdrop

"He's trying to figure out who the devil we are," Elliot said

The figure of a workman carrying a basket appeared

As I woke up, I noticed a seated figure with his face staring at the sky, watching the sunset.

The figure of the Martian grew smaller as it moved away, and soon it was hidden by the mist and the coming night

She was tall and had a beautiful figure

She isn't as pretty, but her hair, eyes, and figure are exactly like Laura's.'"

I could now say goodbye to the ghostly figure who has haunted these pages as she haunted my life.