Example sentences for: depictions

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

  • 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 Mars coverage is dominated by depictions of the excitement inside mission headquarters and of the various features of the planet that are about to be investigated.

  • As it turns out, the Rugrats TV show is much beloved among Jewish parents with young children for its helpful and sympathetic depictions of Hanukkah and Passover Seders.

  • Reviewers find Léger less the "stolid, ruminative" Marxist and more the witty "virtuoso" (Robert Hughes, Time ). While they still celebrate his depictions of the early-20 th -century city, they now also notice his little-known forays into Dadaism and Fauvism.

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


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