How to Use imagery in a Sentence

imagery

noun
  • The movie was full of biblical imagery.
  • The book contains a great deal of sexual imagery.
  • The first slide of the secure-in-place portion of the training includes the clip art imagery.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Twice's Chaeyoung is under fire for wearing a t-shirt with Nazi imagery.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Instead of avoiding the film’s scary imagery, Davis advised watching the film again.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Has your relationship to violent imagery, either within or beyond your own work, changed at all in the last few years?
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This could be intentional: If such imagery has a market, maybe companies would begin to converge around it.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Throughout that album era, the Weeknd wore the same red suit throughout the majority of the imagery surrounding his releases.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The land, which is part of Fort Bliss, is home to ancient rock imagery, natural springs and fields of golden Mexican poppies.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But the mascots — a pirate in Stowe, a knight at the Montpelier school — aren’t drawn from Native American imagery.
    Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • As John narrates, Cutler and Furnish supplement his stories with a host of archival imagery as well as some animation that evokes the style of the era.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Her multimedia works play with deliberately provocative imagery to explore themes of sin, conflict, and forgiveness.
    John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Originally unsweetened, these thin, crisp sheets were stamped with religious imagery and eaten during Christian communion.
    Joan Bailey, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • View the codex and search its text and imagery at florentinecodex.getty.edu.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The imagery has a spin to it, as if we too were being enswooned by it all.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The imagery on these records would echo across rap’s landscape.
    Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Ads played up the John Williams score and the now-iconic imagery of Jaws emerging from the water.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
  • But at the time, I was simply overwhelmed by the power of its imagery.
    James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The imagery picks up in interest as the show proceeds, too.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
  • And the title of the album is Heaven Is a Junkyard, so that imagery runs throughout the record.
    Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • There’s a lot of tired Y2K imagery going around, for instance.
    Eliza Brooke, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2023
  • The imagery shows vehicle tracks progressing across the width of Gaza south of Gaza City.
    Dylan Moriarty, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Indeed, the Fort Worth show displays the breadth of his imagery and approaches.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • An earthquake hit the Bay Area, and for more than a week, the whole state was immersed in the imagery of seismic catastrophe.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 June 2024
  • When placed together, the cards tell a tale, so envision the story based on the imagery.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
  • Both are built around footage of New York shot in 1988 by Steven Siegel, whose imagery is featured on the new album’s cover art.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Many Instagram users took the imagery as a call for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war and praised the artist for being vocal on the issue.
    Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • As its name and imagery allude, the record, released last month, finds its writers at a crossroads.
    Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • The resulting imagery can be used to monitor coral reefs over a number of years.
    Cameron Fozi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That is especially true when the imagery captures a large area.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024

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