Example sentences for: depicting

How can you use “depicting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This sprawling compound of courtyards and showy 19th-century pavilions is decorated in a pantheon of finely carved friezes, gates, and gold-leaf tableaux depicting scenes of Chinese myth and romance.

  • Facing an amphitheater auditorium is a fixed décor of classical Roman statuary and columns that looks far deeper than its 4 m (14 ft), a permanent stage “curtain” of trompe l’oeil depicting the ancient streets of Thebes.

  • The film Mi Familia, directed and released in 1995 by Gregory Nava, includes a comical scene depicting the agringado son, a UCLA student, bringing his Anglo girlfriend home to meet his Mexican family.

  • Inside are some of the country’s finest examples of azulejo tilework, created in the 18th century by the celebrated artist Antônio Oliveira Bernardes and depicting the life of São Lourenço (St. Lawrence).

  • The bronze La Giraldilla weather vane on one of the fort’s towers — depicting a woman scanning the seas for her lost husband, an early Cuban governor — has been adopted as the symbol of the city and of Havana Club rum.


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