Example sentences for: depictions

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

  • Falwell says these "subtle depictions" are deliberate and that "role modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children."

  • In his discussion of one historic work--Jean Buchon's comparison of American rivers in his 1825 Atlas Geographique --Tufte notes how the depictions of the Mississippi and the Amazon must curl around the page, since there's no room to show them stretched out like the other rivers.

  • The paintings that cover the walls depict the Nile at its most splendid with abundant fruit and depictions of wine-making.

  • Even for a Grisham novel, The Street Lawyer is said to be insubstantial, with "an unlikable hero, a slapdash plot and some truly awful prose" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Grisham's social commentary is called both worthy and heavy-handed: His "depictions of the poor read like something turned in by a cub reporter" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). The book is expected to sell out its 2.8-million-copy first run.

  • ET/PT)--are chided for their now formulaic depictions of twentysomething lifestyles, replete with tired pop culture references and "blather ...


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