How to Use pictogram in a Sentence

pictogram

noun

• The first is a pictogram of James on the court with the Sixers' starters.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The pictogram people were great, the drones were weird, but in total there was very little coherence to the whole program.
  — Jackson McHenry and Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• The agency proposed marking temples, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, with a more generic pictogram of a pagoda.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2019
• Both systems appear to perceive the power of pictograms.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2020
• One pictogram highlighted in the study depicts soldiers drowning as a building burns in the background.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021
• That philosophy was a good fit for the pictogram assignment.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• That means letters on signs must be a certain size, signs must be mounted at a specific height from the ground, letters and pictograms must contrast with their background and so on.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 22 Dec. 2017
• The characters do sometimes speak, but in a language of pictograms—images of images that, in Zsako’s hands, convey emotions more efficiently than most text.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2023
• Certain icons are used with permission from Adrian, available at http://designmodo.com/linecons-free/. Entypo pictograms are by Daniel Bruce, available at http://www.entypo.com.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• That’s why the pictogram—a symbol standing in for a word or phrase—is a common tool for helping people with intellectual disabilities.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 2 Mar. 2021
• That thought may or may not have factored into Elon Musk’s decision to have Twitter deploy the pictogram in response to all messages sent to the company’s media relations email address.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
• The pictogram is a clever cross between two digital Unicode signs — the arcs denoting slumber, the slash designating confusion.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Mexico 68 oscillated, in its effects, between the modern and the folkloric, parabolas and papier-mache, pictograms and totems.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 17 May 2018
• So the Sumerians would repurpose an existing pictogram that had resonance with the hard-to-illustrate concept.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
• The Unicode Consortium, though, is more popularly known as the body that approves the emojis that go on to shape human communication, one glistening pictogram at a time.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2017
• Its depiction as a pictogram — resembling a crimson upside-down pear — likely dates back to the medieval era, if not classical antiquity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2020
• The experts gave suggestions for making the directions easier to follow, including fitting them on a single panel and adding pictograms.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• Emojis, colorful and playful pictograms that are available on a range of devices, have altered the way humans communicate with one other and have become a powerful force in pop culture, both online and off.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• Before this week, the images the show proffered felt comfortingly anachronistic, with the pilgrim-like costumes and pictogram-only supermarkets.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• Cuneiform was common throughout the Mesopotamian region during the Bronze Age and was a combination of phonetic symbols, like letters, and ancient Egyptian-style pictograms.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
• Once Sussman / Prejza came aboard, these ideas would be refined and repeated in signs, badges, pictograms, uniforms, merchandise, and event interiors with a more precise hierarchy of type, symbol, and color.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 17 May 2018
• The back label features pictograms showing the topography and viticultural practices.
  — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Cuneiform, their early system of writing, began as a series of pictograms, and some characters represented multiple words or concepts.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
• Given display limitations in early Japanese smart phone screens, Kurita decided to develop pictograms to make displaying information more effective.
  — Vyvyan Evans, CNN, 29 May 2017

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024