How to Use depict in a Sentence

depict

verb

• The movie depicts the life of early settlers.
• I like the way she depicts the characters in her novels.
• In the drawing, the magic cap was depicted as a soft, black hat.
• The photograph depicts the two brothers standing in front of a store.
• Several of the architect's most famous buildings will soon be depicted on postage stamps.
• Angels are usually depicted with wings.
• The wall was painted with a large mural depicting famous scenes from American history.
• The trick is to depict failure as a battle scar where your overall performance improved for the better.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Yet to depict Lincoln as only a reluctant warrior against slavery fails to do him justice.
  — Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• Others depict headless bodies against bleak, dystopian landscapes.
  — Aaron C. Davis and, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
• Their works depict nature, objects, humans, animals and spirits.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
• The film’s most wrenching scenes depict Nicholas (played by Zen McGrath) on the verge of harming others or himself.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
• But each head wears a unique visage, expression and headdress, supporting the idea that the carved boulders depict particular leaders.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
• In the book, Dave depicted Toph (short for Christopher) as a guileless kid, the personification of hope.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
• Keef’s shots depict real situations that look to the past but are conceptually open to contemporary reflections.
  — Vogue, 3 Nov. 2022
• The murals together depict key moments of Portuguese history, like its age of discovery and famous explorers.
  — Dena Levitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2022
• The new one will depict bike lanes and a flat top grill with ham & eggs.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• To depict this in a film made in the Russia of today takes courage.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2022
• The movie First Man vividly depicts one of these flights.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• And as the film depicts, much remains unclear about the case.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2023
• The doors are carved to depict salmon, coyotes and eagles.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Among these is a set that depicts the moon in four of its phases.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• These kinds of pieces depict — and fetishise — Africans in subservient roles.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
• Tech startups love to depict their success as the survival of the fittest.
  — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
• Perry’s art will depict three rowers in a boat that runs the length of the building.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
• They are joined by Susette Kelo, the woman whose life the movie depicts.
  — Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The letter is one of the first to depict Ghaisar as a person of color.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• The entire video and the depicting crime were less than two minutes.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023
• This all changed a few years ago, when Seagate launched hard drives depicting Lucasfilm and Marvel characters and themes.
  — PCMAG, 17 Nov. 2024
• In the meantime, a metal gangway is being erected over the empty fountain for tourists to get a close view of the fountain’s sculpture Oceanus, the Titan God of Earth, depicted with galloping horses.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024