How to Use pixel in a Sentence

pixel

noun
  • That amounts to four times as many pixels as the 1080p standard.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The idea is to see more thing in HD, to see the pixels in every moment.
    Billboard Argentina, Billboard, 26 July 2017
  • The shift from print to pixels makes Holman, 78, wince.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The whole process works by making minute changes to pixels in the artwork.
    Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Chances are, your TV is watching you, too, through a few nosy pixels on the screen.
    Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2019
  • The latter has more pixels, but your eyes won’t pick them up.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The secret to MicroLED is the tiny trio of diodes—red, green and blue—which make up each pixel.
    David Pierce, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Add in a dash of square video-game-like pixel details in the taillights, and that’s the Ioniq 6.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
  • On paper or pixel, that may sound more like fun than a big deal.
    David Dickstein, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • There’s no hint of pixel structure, no sign of a jagged edge, and no softness.
    John Archer, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • LCDs can let through or block light on a per-pixel basis.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 18 July 2021
  • The neighboring pixel did too, but its wave was a little out of step with the first one.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The new chip also runs a five mega-pixel camera for video calls.
    Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • When glucose levels were high, a LED pixel on the lens would turn off.
    Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But here and there, clusters of blue pixels appear—signs of moisture in the ground.
    Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 10 Aug. 2017
  • In one case, the display pixels just started dying along the crease in the display.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • When those deeds fade, though, all that's left behind is pixels.
    Peter Rubin, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Just pixels on a phone screen, the abstract capture of a moment.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 3 May 2019
  • Each pixel on the map represents a square on Earth that’s 10 meters on a side.
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • This gallery demonstrates why the pixel-perfect options are the best ones here.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2022
  • When the email is opened, code within the pixel sends the info back to the company’s server.
    Barbara Krasnoff, The Verge, 3 July 2019
  • Keep your pixels in place and your humanity in the mix!
    Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2024
  • The nine-pixel group pools the light, which Samsung says results in sharp low-light 12MP pictures.
    Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The higher the number of pixels, the sharper and more detailed the images and text displayed.
    Stewart Wolpin, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2023
  • The iPhone 14 Pro Max improves on this a bit with a larger and more pixel-dense sensor, but it’s not enough.
    Ben Sin, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The headlights and taillights are swapped out for thin LED strips, and four square pixel fog lights are mounted on the front bumper.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Pixel 7a On the surface, the 7a looks similar to the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro, with the same pixel camera bar along the back.
    Samantha Kelly, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • Look for the Seven concept's pixel lighting to find its way to the Ioniq 7.
    Greg Fink, Car and Driver, 20 Nov. 2021
  • That's why this guide doesn't get too deep into the weeds of megapixel counts, sensor sizes, and pixel peeping.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Davis used an encoding scheme to translate the image, which was five pixels by seven, into a sequence of eighteen bases.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025

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