How to Use textual in a Sentence

textual

adjective
Definition of textualnext
  • The fight over this land has been very textual since Day One.
    — Amir Sommer, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The most direct route to textual salvation is to tell him to knock it off.
    — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • This new knowledge calls for a new kind of close textual reading.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • There is a notable amount of talk in the book about metaphors; so much so that trips start to feel like textual events as much as physical ones.
    — John Williams, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • What’s different with GPT-2, though, is the scale of the textual data modeled by the system.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Best to relieve yourself of textual worries and bask in the fraught lyricism.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But it had never been looked at in great textual detail.
    — Maria Russo, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • This is not a movie, after all, that stands up to much textual analysis.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2017
  • Most fake news now is textual, with some photo hacking thrown in.
    — Antonio García Martínez, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The back of each card contains textual references to the blessing in question.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
  • People who couldn’t travel all the way to Egypt would no longer have to imagine the scene from sketches and textual descriptions.
    — Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
  • The fault lies less with the performers than with the revival’s hesitant approach to textual changes.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The third part is the physical part of the show, which maniupulates the body as the foundational textual source.
    — Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2018
  • Now, a textual reading of the note might imply that it could be read only in the summer, and specifically the summer of 2012.
    — Dan Berman, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
  • On the bodice of the dress, an ornate design created a textual addition to the fabric.
    — Julia Teti, WWD, 27 June 2024
  • This is a powerful study of the Virgin Mary — the textual fragments, icons, and relics that constructed our ideas of her and of the feminine, from the Gospels to today.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The film starts off as a straight homage to Herrington’s film peppered with one too many meta textual references.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Blue Lips is stocked with samples that feel both musical and textual.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • That being said, there's a certain textual playfulness from the book.
    — EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But names feel more significant now that so much of modern life is textual.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 15 May 2017
  • The ideas seem to flow from her unconscious, not from some contrived post-textual analysis.
    — Minju Pak, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The adaptations still don't fix 400-year-old textual issues.
    — Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 9 July 2017
  • To parse writing, AI models sleuth through textual clues, such as word choices, to see their connections.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And space like a reading room brings scholars together to think and act with each other and with our textual histories.
    — Aarian Marshall, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2021
  • But Stone may have made some minute textual changes, possibly to distinguish his copies from the original, Kaller wrote.
    — Author: Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Such people can even sell their textual wares in an online market called PromptBase.
    — Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2022
  • But other courts are unwilling, including due to a lack of textual support in the law to authorize such an act.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 June 2024
  • Throughout the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, most hymnbooks were exclusively textual: little books of poems, in essence.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
  • Since Hecht is among the most erudite of modern poets, steeped in the Bible as well as Shakespeare, readers may be pleased to find nearly 50 pages of textual notes, plus a brief chronology.
    — David Mason, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Switching Bobby’s trio of girlfriends to Bobbie’s trio of boyfriends, for example, requires more than light textual revision and bold casting choices.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024

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