Example sentences for: depictions

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

  • But, to move to less disputed territory, although I haven't had time to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art today to check, I have a distinct recollection that they have quite a few depictions of various religious images in their collection.

  • 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.

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

  • But apart from Sheedy's melancholic portrayal of the doped-up photographer, the film is said to be "full of itself and its artistic pretension" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ) and saddled with clichéd depictions of bohemianism.

  • 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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