How to Use pictograph in a Sentence

pictograph

noun

• Big Bend National Park has it all — vast amounts of open space, rivers, canyons, pictographs, and hot springs.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• For an overnight trip, take the 22-mile Painted Cave trail, which features a pictograph panel.
  — Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2022
• These new additions bring the total count of available pictographs to 3,664.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
• Here are steep-sided canyons etched with 4,000-year-old pictographs painted in blood and ochre by Finland’s Stone Age settlers.
  — Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2017
• The mound also has ancient petroglyphs and pictographs scrawled into its tan rock base.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2017
• Aside from pictographs, Hueco Tanks is great for rock climbing, hiking, bird-watching, and camping.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
• Aside from looking for pictographs, visitors here can geocache, mountain bike, hike, and more.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
• Occasionally, two or three of Baras’ roughly hewn pictographs on burlap, wood and canvas appear to be shouting across the gallery.
  — David Pagel, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• These hunter-gatherers painted pictographs in the rock shelters of the Lower Pecos River Country, and today, more than 200 sites still have these paintings.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
• These pictographs, like the smiley-face caricature, are self-portraits too.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• As the 4,000-year-old pictographs still visible along its steep canyon walls attest, it is saturated in history.
  — Stephen Harrigan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• The collection’s core design features a cave art-like pictograph of a long-necked water bird facing the spirit of a roaring panther with a fish over the source spring of the San Antonio River.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• Early humans first discovered this cave system some 5,000 years ago and left behind pictographs made by firelight.
  — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
• Before me were crude drawings, pictographs painted on the walls of the shallow cave by ancient civilizations that occupied this place thousands of years ago.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
• Roche-a-Cri has ancient pictographs from the ancestors of the local Ho-Chunk, who carved arrows, birds, figures, canoes and more into the rock, and used it to track astronomical events and local life.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
• In California, there are century-old pictographs drawn by the Yokuts that appear to show a family of giant creatures with long, shaggy hair.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
• The mural's diamonds, pinwheels, cubes and pictographs suggest a freestyle Native American rug, its trails of dripping ink like loose, dangling threads.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• A touch of a screen will turn today’s white paper into tomorrow’s pictograph or audio abstract.
  — Bob Pearson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Panels of petroglyphs and pictographs reveal the canyon’s millennia-old appeal.
  — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 11 June 2017
• In the 1970s Kohlmeyer developed a style of multihued pictographs, usually organized on a grid.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• But if surviving a plane crash isn’t motivation enough, there are other compelling reasons to check out that plastic pictograph.
  — Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2017
• Dialogue takes place through pictographs symbolizing concepts like home and ideas.
  — Doug Cornelius, WIRED, 30 July 2009
• Looking back, food has always played a role in art: Stone Age cave painters used vegetable juice and animal fats as binding ingredients in their paints, and the Egyptians carved pictographs of crops and bread on hieroglyphic tablets.
  — Sharon Butler, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
• The emoji really isn’t a modern concept, simply a pictograph rendered in a digital form.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2022
• Knowing that the Huichol associated black and red with the underworld, Boyd believed this pictograph represented the watery underworld in the West, from which the first humans emerged.
  — Will Hunt, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
• Additionally, Medicine Rock, a sacred spot with ancient pictographs used for rituals and healing, is also located at the base of Chokla.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2023
• They were then shown an intentionally ambiguous image—in this case, a Chinese pictograph.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 11 June 2018
• The roughly 1,000-year-old pictographs depict how various animals, including beavers, created the world.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• The new emoji include useful pictographs such as a ninja, disguised face, polar bear, bubble tea, pickup truck, toothbrush, military helmet, two people hugging, and pinched fingers (also known as the Italian hand gesture).
  — cleveland, 30 Jan. 2020
• The panel was originally given the name Mallery’s Grotto after ethnologist and pictograph specialist Garrick Mallery.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024