How to Use depict in a Sentence

depict

verb
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  • The movie depicts the life of early settlers.
  • I like the way she depicts the characters in her novels.
  • In the drawing, the magic cap was depicted as a soft, black hat.
  • The photograph depicts the two brothers standing in front of a store.
  • Several of the architect's most famous buildings will soon be depicted on postage stamps.
  • Angels are usually depicted with wings.
  • The wall was painted with a large mural depicting famous scenes from American history.
  • As the title suggests, the lyrics depict the minutiae of daily life over a gentle track.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Styled as Pac-Man, the figure is depicted on the verge of devouring a blue dot.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Both works depict how racial violence might be veiled by the rhetoric of assimilation.
    — Wendy S. Walters, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Which is usually when the film bumps up against the curse that afflicts most music biopics: trying to depict a complicated life in a little over two hours.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Despujols’ paintings depict men in her life in various domestic backdrops.
    — Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The medical facilities also closely mirror what is depicted on the show.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The clips in the video included in the post do not depict the current conditions within Yellowstone National Park.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
  • My first impulse was to try to depict him in an explicitly radical or assertive light as a response to how heavily sanitized his politics have become in the decades since his passing.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Over the course of her career in Hollywood, Hyland has seen the varying and sometimes harmful ways domestic violence has been depicted in the media.
    — Bruna Nessif, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Because of this, fans and former cast members have accused the producers of deceptive editing or depicting inaccurate narratives.
    — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Indeed, the vote depicted in Conclave is a highly choreographed affair involving pageantry, secret ballots — and plenty of backstabbing.
    — Eric Andersson, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The new one will depict bike lanes and a flat top grill with ham & eggs.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • To depict this in a film made in the Russia of today takes courage.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • The movie First Man vividly depicts one of these flights.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And as the film depicts, much remains unclear about the case.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The doors are carved to depict salmon, coyotes and eagles.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Among these is a set that depicts the moon in four of its phases.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • These kinds of pieces depict — and fetishise — Africans in subservient roles.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Tech startups love to depict their success as the survival of the fittest.
    — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Perry’s art will depict three rowers in a boat that runs the length of the building.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
  • They are joined by Susette Kelo, the woman whose life the movie depicts.
    — Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The letter is one of the first to depict Ghaisar as a person of color.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • The entire video and the depicting crime were less than two minutes.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023

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