photographed; photographing; photographs
: to take a photograph of
1
: to take a photograph
2
: to appear as an image in a photograph
an actress who photographs well
Examples of photograph in a Sentence
Noun
I always take a lot of photographs when I travel.
the old photograph was faded but still clear enough to make out
Verb
He photographed the women sitting on the bench.
She was photographed in the studio.
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Abigail Dubiniecki, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Vice-President Michel Temer took over, but his tenure was shadowed by a potential scandal: a blackmailer had hacked his wife’s phone and threatened to release compromising photographs of her.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Paula Aceves, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
The spring 2025 issue has Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover interviewed by the curator Klaus Biesenbach and photographed by Brianna Capozzi.
—Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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Noun
With few photographs, no clear family records, and little oral history preserved, DNA testing offers, albeit partial, answers to an individual's story.
—Abigail Dubiniecki, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Vice-President Michel Temer took over, but his tenure was shadowed by a potential scandal: a blackmailer had hacked his wife’s phone and threatened to release compromising photographs of her.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
Taking inspiration from Richard Avedon’s Performance, Mark Seliger set out to photograph them as they, quite literally, performed — many for the first time in decades.
—Paula Aceves, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
The spring 2025 issue has Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover interviewed by the curator Klaus Biesenbach and photographed by Brianna Capozzi.
—Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Photograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photograph. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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photograph
1 of 2 noun
pho·to·graph
ˈfōt-ə-ˌgraf 
: a picture obtained by photography
photograph
2 of 2 verb1
: to take a photograph of
2
: to take photographs
3
: to be photographed
photographer
noun
fə-ˈtäg-rə-fər
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