Example sentences for: pictorial

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

  • The legendary Japanese director of such films as Rashomon , The Seven Samurai , and Ran is canonized: "one of the handful of truly important directors that the cinema has produced" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Steven Spielberg calls him "the pictorial Shakespeare of our time."

  • Hieroglyphs and logographs are just as much phonetic-based scripts as letters (which millennia ago were likewise pictorial representations of concrete objects).

  • The Diana pictorial taboo and its underlying moralism turned out to be remarkably evanescent, and a secondary morality tale has arisen to explain why: It's the Internet's fault.

  • It must also be said that the 20th century more than any earlier time has seen the accumulation of a more detailed documentation of life, as anyone knows from the plethora of scratchy, saccadic, often soundless images thrown on our television screens: a series on American gangsters, for instance, repeats radio broadcasts of the 1920s and 30s, bringing to us vividly not only the pictorial images of the day when, to modern youth, everyone wore black and white clothing and makeup but the words and accents of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Huey Long, Walter Winchell, and others who epitomize the era.

  • Your trademark or service mark may be registered, but you may have rights to the mark even if you have not registered it, The symbol you choose for your mark may be pictorial, as the bearded representation of the Smith Brothers of cough-drop fame, who, as some would have it, are named, respectively, Trade and Mark.


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