How to Use naturalistic in a Sentence

naturalistic

adjective

• The zoo strives to create naturalistic settings for the animals.
• The Bronx Zoo is one of the largest zoos in the U.S. by area; it's comprised of 265 acres of park lands and naturalistic habitats.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 30 Apr. 2022
• Against the Black Hills, the Harley-as-horse metaphor feels naturalistic.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The women are all brown-skinned, but most of the other hues are far from naturalistic.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• But over the course of eight days, as the play digs deeper, its naturalistic trappings drop away.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• But your next step might be something more blob-like and naturalistic, which seems to be where the trend is heading.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• But just because the chat is naturalistic doesn’t mean the effect isn’t just a little … strange.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2021
• The shaded paths lead down to a series of naturalistic ponds.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
• The main point though is that all the acrobatic machinery for Sonic just hangs in the air and feels out of place against the naturalistic art style.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• The game may look more naturalistic with Vivid mode off, but the unnatural lights befit the game’s mood.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• That’s a more naturalistic style of storytelling and more of a heightened style.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
• Smack in the middle of what looks like a naturalistic painting is a three-headed monster.
  — Sharmila Mukherjee, The Seattle Times, 2 Jan. 2019
• Still, the puzzle element of the game is not quite as naturalistic as the drama itself.
  — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 18 Aug. 2021
• The movie is, in effect, a naturalistic horror story of a practical crime and a moral crime.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
• The all-wood island and hardwood floor complement the tiles' naturalistic tints and shades.
  — Marisa Donnelly, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• Select your plants, and place your stumps in an artful yet naturalistic fashion, slightly buried in the ground.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 17 Feb. 2023
• In my mind, that gets closer to real life than the naturalistic [style of filmmaking]. . . .
  — Isaac Feldberg, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
• The children were shown pictures of pairs of adults — either a white man and white woman, or a black man and black woman — in naturalistic scenes, like a home or an office.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• Called Greystoke Cottage, a designation signified on a plaque over the front door, the house sits on more than half an acre of naturalistic grounds.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
• Thanks to the gentle, unforced way Mills directs his script, and Phoenix’s naturalistic acting, the movie never has the feel of Hollywood chintz.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Oct. 2021
• Greif’s staging, which grows more naturalistic as the pair careens off the rails, attempts its own kind of seduction.
  — Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• Most of the red-hued, naturalistic drawings are more than 2.5 feet tall; some are actually life-size.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020
• As a control, all the mice were also given a naturalistic task that involved digging through a heap of bedding to find a reward.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
• But against them come naturalistic set-pieces and lonesome doorframes that slide on via turntables.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 26 May 2023
• The suiting was more naturalistic and hung on the body in a way that wasn’t as constricting as your common American Brooks Brothers cut.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
• The 55-foot-long swimming pool is privately positioned amid a naturalistic landscape with an over-the-dune view of the Atlantic Ocean.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 June 2024
• The concept is claimed to have been inspired by the original Avatar blockbuster film, which was set in a naturalistic other-world paradise with no cars.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 13 Dec. 2022
• Duse’s legacy is the American naturalistic style, in which the performer submerges herself in the role.
  — Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• New ocean bungalows have a naturalistic design and fab lanai with a hanging egg chair swing.
  — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022
• Which works both for and against the film, as Gilford is just as capable of holding the camera steady on a performance as naturalistic as Plummer’s.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024