Example sentences for: depictions

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

  • S chool Violence: Since the Columbine killings, there's been a special focus on depictions of adolescents committing mayhem in school.

  • Many of Darger's watercolors, for instance, include depictions of framed pictures whose images are indistinguishable from the images outside them.

  • 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.

  • Most mock Mehta for his overwrought prose and depictions of Shawn's impeccable editing.

  • 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.


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