How to Use depiction in a Sentence

depiction

noun
  • The third is a depiction of the Buddhist concept of the second arrow.
    Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Some have said the film is a poor depiction of the trans community.
    Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The depiction of the two swans has been both an enigma and a source of inspiration for artists.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The Raft of the Medusa, a depiction of an 1816 shipwreck in which the captain abandoned scores of passengers to die.
    WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The play’s impact was in its depiction of male softness.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Still, a glitchy depiction of legs would quickly break your sense of immersion in the VR realm.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But the mass murder and Jacob’s scalp are among the show’s most graphic depictions.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
  • In Lin’s depiction, though, the workers do triumph, in a gruesome sort of way.
    Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The book, which was made into the 2009 movie Precious includes depictions of rape.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The statue appeared to be a sprite, a depiction of a mythical being that serves as a guardian over the land.
    Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • One of the early depictions of baboons dates back to the first dynasty, a small statue known as the Narmer baboon.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The earliest depictions of the saint depict him in blue robes and garments.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But just how accurate is the show's depiction of the business-side of fine dining?
    Nicolas Vega, CNBC, 17 July 2024
  • The reality is that some give a sci-fi depiction of AI.
    Sol Rashidi, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Both of those depictions were partial, or seen from a distance.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
  • The biggest liberty the movie takes is in its depiction of Jordan’s agent, David Falk.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
  • It’s known from depictions on tombs that scribes often sat, knelt, or stood while working away at their tablets.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The lab moved beyond mental health depiction to focus on cast and crew and their own well-being.
    Malina Saval, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
  • And a sculptural depiction of a stupa, carved in relief on a limestone panel, opens the show.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • The second is a fond depiction of London’s lower-middle-class Jews—fond, that is, for its time.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Big Cigar is both a depiction of that fraught affinity and a cannily self-aware product of it.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • The show's depiction found Cookie knowing about Andre in the summer of 1980.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
  • One of her contributions to the show is a charmingly chaotic depiction of the busy block of Sawtelle.
    Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The depiction of Veruca Salt’s father, in that same book, sails close to Jewish stereotypes.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
  • So in this way, then, the latest film foregoes much of the environment, depiction, and framework fans of the series came to know and love.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • For further insights about systems prompts, see my depiction at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The content itself is deep; the Compton act asks for the Lord’s guidance through all of his struggles, which is a meta depiction of his career.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • And Poison shows Dahl’s debt to Rudyard Kipling in a knowing depiction of the empire’s defects.
    Armond White, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Whishaw listened to it a lot, but aside from those two tapes and essays about him by people who knew him, the depiction of Hujar was largely Whishaw’s own interpretation.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
  • In ancient Egyptian art, for example, Evans says there are depictions of how agriculture workers used nets to combat crop pests.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025

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