How to Use depiction in a Sentence

depiction

noun

• The statue appeared to be a sprite, a depiction of a mythical being that serves as a guardian over the land.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2024
• The song and music video’s depiction of Africa, however, has drawn criticism over the years.
  — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2024
• This small house contained a number of sensual, mythic depictions.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
• Perry tends to hit the depictions of prejudice rather hard, which can have a reductive impact on all these women accomplished.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
• Beneath the absurdity of the premise is a depiction of how much self-sacrifice motherhood can require.
  — Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
• The content itself is deep; the Compton act asks for the Lord’s guidance through all of his struggles, which is a meta depiction of his career.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2024
• The third is a depiction of the Buddhist concept of the second arrow.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
• The Raft of the Medusa, a depiction of an 1816 shipwreck in which the captain abandoned scores of passengers to die.
  — WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The play’s impact was in its depiction of male softness.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Still, a glitchy depiction of legs would quickly break your sense of immersion in the VR realm.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
• In Lin’s depiction, though, the workers do triumph, in a gruesome sort of way.
  — Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• The book, which was made into the 2009 movie Precious includes depictions of rape.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• One of the early depictions of baboons dates back to the first dynasty, a small statue known as the Narmer baboon.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• The earliest depictions of the saint depict him in blue robes and garments.
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
• But just how accurate is the show's depiction of the business-side of fine dining?
  — Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 17 July 2024
• The reality is that some give a sci-fi depiction of AI.
  — Sol Rashidi, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
• Both of those depictions were partial, or seen from a distance.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
• The biggest liberty the movie takes is in its depiction of Jordan’s agent, David Falk.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
• It’s known from depictions on tombs that scribes often sat, knelt, or stood while working away at their tablets.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• The lab moved beyond mental health depiction to focus on cast and crew and their own well-being.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• And a sculptural depiction of a stupa, carved in relief on a limestone panel, opens the show.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• The second is a fond depiction of London’s lower-middle-class Jews—fond, that is, for its time.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• The Big Cigar is both a depiction of that fraught affinity and a cannily self-aware product of it.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 30 May 2024
• The show's depiction found Cookie knowing about Andre in the summer of 1980.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
• One of her contributions to the show is a charmingly chaotic depiction of the busy block of Sawtelle.
  — Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The depiction of Veruca Salt’s father, in that same book, sails close to Jewish stereotypes.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• So in this way, then, the latest film foregoes much of the environment, depiction, and framework fans of the series came to know and love.
  — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• And Poison shows Dahl’s debt to Rudyard Kipling in a knowing depiction of the empire’s defects.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
• There is the slight tilt of the head, which recalls countless depictions of the Madonna, but also the wry smile that dispels any whiff of sanctity.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2023
• Home Alone’s depiction of the relationship between Kevin and his mom is the classic case.
  — Gregory M. Collins, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024