How to Use imagery in a Sentence
imagery
noun- The movie was full of biblical imagery.
- The book contains a great deal of sexual imagery.
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But that doesn’t mean he’s not still drawn to dark imagery.
— Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024 -
Part of the beauty of the imagery comes from Lachman shooting on black-and-white stock.
— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024 -
View the codex and search its text and imagery at florentinecodex.getty.edu.
— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023 -
The imagery has a spin to it, as if we too were being enswooned by it all.
— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024 -
The imagery on these records would echo across rap’s landscape.
— Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The first slide of the secure-in-place portion of the training includes the clip art imagery.
— Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023 -
Ads played up the John Williams score and the now-iconic imagery of Jaws emerging from the water.
— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 18 June 2024 -
But at the time, I was simply overwhelmed by the power of its imagery.
— James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023 -
The imagery picks up in interest as the show proceeds, too.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023 -
The imagery and the meaning behind it are more complex.
— oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022 -
Filled with Catholic imagery, cookies in this monastery are sold by the half kilo.
— Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022 -
And the title of the album is Heaven Is a Junkyard, so that imagery runs throughout the record.
— Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023 -
There’s a lot of tired Y2K imagery going around, for instance.
— Eliza Brooke, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2023 -
The look that made the world tremble was putting her in the Vetements sweatshirt with the Titanic [imagery].
— Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024 -
The imagery was not subtle; billboards around town flashed Trump as Jesus, and a man dragged a cross up and down the side of the highway.
— Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 -
The imagery shows vehicle tracks progressing across the width of Gaza south of Gaza City.
— Dylan Moriarty, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023 -
Indeed, the Fort Worth show displays the breadth of his imagery and approaches.
— Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 16 June 2023 -
An earthquake hit the Bay Area, and for more than a week, the whole state was immersed in the imagery of seismic catastrophe.
— Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 June 2024 -
When placed together, the cards tell a tale, so envision the story based on the imagery.
— Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024 -
Both are built around footage of New York shot in 1988 by Steven Siegel, whose imagery is featured on the new album’s cover art.
— Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024 -
Many Instagram users took the imagery as a call for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war and praised the artist for being vocal on the issue.
— Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023 -
Instead of avoiding the film’s scary imagery, Davis advised watching the film again.
— Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023 -
As its name and imagery allude, the record, released last month, finds its writers at a crossroads.
— Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 12 June 2024 -
The new debris photos are part of the latest imagery from the aftermath of the disaster last year.
— Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024 -
The resulting imagery can be used to monitor coral reefs over a number of years.
— Cameron Fozi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023 -
That is especially true when the imagery captures a large area.
— Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024 -
Twice's Chaeyoung is under fire for wearing a t-shirt with Nazi imagery.
— Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023 -
And with imagery, their pupil was different in the light condition.
— Stefano Montali, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2023
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