How to Use pixelated in a Sentence

pixelated

adjective
  • The little statues partially shield the baroque grandeur of the room, letting the eye wander from the block-like, almost pixelated creations, and out to the plane trees in the square.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Accessing a terminal drops players into a modernized update of the original game for quick hits of pixelated play.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Some may want to purge the dead from the web, and some may want to preserve it in pixelated amber.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 8 May 2023
  • The digital world crept in as well, in the form of pixelated video-game looks.
    Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Instead of a pixelated black and white screen, the Pix screen is in full color.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 21 Apr. 2021
  • In the pixelated black and white image, the 9-1-1: Lone Star cast members stand side-by-side.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 24 Sep. 2022
  • On The Atlantic’s old website, the type was small and pixelated.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • From pixelated apes to Donald Trump trading cards, there’s no shortage of ideas in the world of Web3.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Her face is a bit pixelated, as if the photo was enlarged.
    Brett Sholtis, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The ad shows RiRi wearing a leather trench with a black and gray pixelated pattern draped over her baby bump.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 21 June 2023
  • My own was for my Myspace in 2014, in my bedroom in the suburbs of Sydney, pixelated and pouty.
    Fariha Róisín, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The rapper looked cool in a brown pixelated suit, white dress shirt, black dress shoes, and black round sunglasses.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2023
  • Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, for instance, or a clip of TV footage from a basketball game, or a pixelated cartoon ape in the form of a jpeg.
    Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Cyber mannequins stood poised in pixelated versions of the looks shown on-screen.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Garcia kept talking out of turn, his mouth moving in the pixelated video.
    Thalia Beaty, ProPublica, 16 June 2020
  • But the pixelated graphics of VR back then didn’t look very convincing.
    Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, 29 May 2017
  • As games evolved from simple pixelated sidescrollers to more engaging 3D worlds, cheat codes evolved with them.
    David Silverberg, Popular Mechanics, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The collection was filled with pixelated print and the million-dollar Speedy bag made its grand entrance.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For instance, the rapper wears the pixelated camo pants in various shots.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 25 July 2023
  • One wormhole wings your pod across a digital Atlantic and deposits you in front of a quaint green building on the banks of a pixelated river.
    Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Some are more pixelated than others, depending on the quality of their Wi-Fi; Elena is sort of smudged and moves in jerks.
    Anne Fadiman, Wired, 17 June 2020
  • In this sense, the gamers in ReStart are like visitors from the future, people who have returned from the other side of the pixelated glass, blinking back from their reverie to soak in the life around them.
    David Kushner, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2019
  • With every passing second, a few more pixelated lines appear on the image and the pie is a little more complete.
    James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
  • As someone pointed out, this, too, can smolder—see Louis Vuitton’s deeply cool, pixelated take on the pattern for Spring 2024.
    Paul Tuller, WSJ, 22 June 2023
  • On Monday evening, as the Dodgers protected a three-run lead, the pixelated digits carried more weight than usual.
    Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Fans clad in baseball jerseys, many of whom already knew Peanut Butter from his January speed-run, watched the pixelated game with the fervor of a die-hard sports crowd.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • This steam release accents a retro and pixelated art style with modern lighting and spell effects, and makes for a flashy and flavorful game.
    Jd Linville, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Bored Apes and pixelated punk rockers are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Whatever sense of character a gamer might project on silent, pixelated avatars would have to be richer than Pratt's blandly plucky take on Mario.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The branches of the pine tree in the above photo appear blurry and pixelated, while the colors seem artificially bright.
    PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024

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