How to Use verisimilitude in a Sentence

verisimilitude

noun

• Not all of the attempts to heighten verisimilitude pay off.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• There’s stealth in Garrone’s approach: for the most part, the story sticks to a low-key, rough-hewn verisimilitude.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Eagle-eyed hippies might spot a crack in the verisimilitude.
  — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 12 June 2024
• The sisters are stunned by the verisimilitude of Sachi’s rendering, and Sachi is in turn thrilled with their response.
  — Sarah Archer, The Atlantic, 21 July 2021
• That verisimilitude was lacking a bit with the HoloBike.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 May 2024
• Above all, Conan Doyle excels in the you-are-there verisimilitude of his battle scenes.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
• John Quincy Adams is long dead, but the verisimilitude of the image brings him back to life in some way due to the reflexes awakened in my brain.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2013
• Projections of the real ship and crew add verisimilitude, but this is not a docu-drama.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2017
• The authors do cut the verisimilitude ever so slightly short, though.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
• For the viewer, Davisson adds, there’s no verisimilitude with these kinds of recreations.
  — Janet Manley, Wired, 26 Nov. 2020
• But there are larger issues with the film’s verisimilitude.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• In the 1950s, a film crew using the rocks as a stand-in for Red Rock Canyon in Nevada painted them red for vermilion verisimilitude.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• For verisimilitude, Beanie Boy would be more likely to buy his instrument its own seat on a flight than risk damaging it in the jostling of the hordes.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 5 Apr. 2017
• Holbein’s portraits are renowned for their verisimilitude, but in Anne’s case, the painter may have flattered his sitter.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• That's always my goal with my research, to bring that verisimilitude into things.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
• Any discrepancy is used to adjust the speed of the video, in order to preserve verisimilitude.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• The director knew Ford would need to be de-aged with a level of verisimilitude that has proven elusive to filmmakers so far.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 June 2023
• Of course, working around real preteens upped the verisimilitude.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 26 Feb. 2019
• In part, that’s due to the fiction’s high level of verisimilitude — from L.A.’s dives and ratty apartments to the predictable patterns of addiction.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• The fact that Pym’s stories sometimes end nowhere can be viewed as verisimilitude, but an awful lot depends on contrivance.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• So Sharolyn blends brown and yellow and black and white and red, and her final coats lighten and shade the Big Idaho Potato to burbank russet verisimilitude.
  — Bill Manny, idahostatesman, 20 June 2018
• Days earlier, Jeff Pearlman, who wrote the book on which the series is based, had defended the show against complaints about its verisimilitude.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 May 2022
• Preferably the latter, and Lisa would be wise to get the verisimilitude to a passable level by adding a few talking points about her incredible hair.
  — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2021
• Just like the Delorean, there’s a verisimilitude to the design (to the extent that a talking or time-traveling car can be believable).
  — Joe Veix, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2017
• Actually moving and clicking a mouse cursor with your stick, just for the verisimilitude, gets old fast.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 20 July 2023
• Keith Urban shows up to add a bit of country verisimilitude but not much interest.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• Many writers’ books go slack when their characters open their mouths, as if dullness equals verisimilitude.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• So certain aspects of verisimilitude are dispensed with, without making a big deal over it.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
• But Cooper, who also directed and co-wrote (with Josh Singer), would hardly be the first lead actor contender to alter his schnoz for the sake of verisimilitude.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024