How to Use photographic in a Sentence

photographic

adjective
  • And the scene where the guy that used to own the photographic studio comes back in a terrible state.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Live clips are spliced with black-and-white clips of ’50s-era photographic shoots and runways.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 July 2024
  • This was a year and a half before the iPhone, and photographic evidence was scarce.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • The Duke, wearing a suit and tie, then posed with the club in the palace grounds, and photographic proof was duly dispatched to Tanna.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Here’s a photographic look at some of the highlights of McCarthy’s time on Capitol Hill.
    Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • My photographic journey started in Brazil in the local press in the 1980s.
    Emilie Richardson, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Prior to Northridge, the data were recorded on photographic film chips by sensors out in the field.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But for right now, Oditt trains his focus on the photographic survey.
    Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Is there photographic or video evidence of the Phoenix Lights?
    The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • And the thrill of this hunt results only in the photographic capture of bucks, does and fawns, which Goyet posts on Instagram at @sgbgood.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • And the collection holds more than just photographic negatives of the stars.
    Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Among them is a small blue photographic print from an exhibition held at the Robert Miller Gallery on 57th Street.
    ELLE Decor, 1 Sep. 2022
  • At the same time, there’s photographic evidence that the Ukrainians have shot down at least one of Russia’s killer drones.
    David Axe, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • On the downside, both off-the-shelf and DIY pinhole cameras use film or photographic paper.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The families sat behind him at the hearing and held up photographic portraits of some of the 346 people killed in those tragedies.
    Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • In the comics, Maya can copy the fighting style of any opponent, thanks to her photographic reflexes.
    David Zimmermann, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • In honor of Houston’s birthday, Vogue took a look through the archives to compile a photographic tribute to the one-of-a-kind diva.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In his photographic memoir Dwyane, Wade spoke about the challenges of co-parenting a young child.
    Courtney Young, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The Gallery is set to publish a new book of photographic portraits from the Hold Still exhibition.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The silkscreen ink seems to merge with the metal, making the value contrasts, the darks and lights, of the photographic image negligible.
    David Salle, The New York Review of Books, 13 Dec. 2020
  • As a form of art, photographic storytelling can give raw views that challenge how people see the world.
    Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • The victim of the Sept. 13 assault was able to identify Michely in a photographic lineup.
    Haleigh Kochanski, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
  • In honor of her 76th birthday, Vogue dug through the archives to compile a photographic tribute to the divine dame.
    Keaton Bell, Vogue, 26 July 2021
  • All photographic evidence suggests that the power suit was her go-to look in those days.
    Rickie De Sole, Vogue, 5 May 2021
  • Whitehead, as ever, has a photographic eye for the particulars of the city and its moment in time.
    Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The team has spent the last six months out on the boat with the color board, collecting as many photographic samples of passing sharks to expand their data set.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 July 2022
  • The air, bathed yellow by safe lights, smells of photographic chemicals and is filled with a rhythmic clicking and a shuttling swoosh.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But a few of these stories come with photographic evidence, which the women have shared on Instagram over the years.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no photographic evidence of the two of them hanging out after the game either.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2024
  • There’s photographic evidence right here on his phone, which also happens to be a repository of unheard, unfinished Van Halen songs.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024

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