How to Use pictorial in a Sentence

pictorial

adjective

• Here's a pictorial overview of the snow depth in Fort Collins as of 10:30pm.
  — Daniel Boniface, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• But it's come to serve as a catch-all for other kinds of pictorial writing, from the Mayans to the Incas.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2020
• It is designed to be a pictorial essay and guide of the 13 missing works of art.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• The visual elements alone, like the opening pictorial key, are worth the price of the book.
  — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 6 June 2019
• The pictorial space is as flat as a Parchesi board and equally jazzy.
  — Peter Plagens, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• Here, both the lack of color and finish and the trompe l’oeil draw attention to the painting’s pictorial rhetoric.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The artist led many pictorial lives, and these are two at opposite poles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Among other things the show enables a visitor to compare the pictorial techniques and skills of the painters whose works are on view.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• The painting has a rhythm in the way its lines dance up and down across the canvas as if this were a pictorial analogue to a Jackson Pollock painting.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• The recital’s second half was devoted to three more or less pictorial pieces by Liszt.
  — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
• One hundred years ago the Evening Tribune published this page as a pictorial review of the major news events of 1922.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
• Why not place a clear pictorial symbol for a sun and a cloud instead, like what the Fujifilm Mini 9 has?
  — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
• It was followed by pictorial books on Rome, Moscow and Tokyo.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• Hyde then led the audience on a pictorial walk down the west side of the square, beginning with No. 2, the original courthouse and the former home of Whitey's Army and Navy store for 67 years.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The scene is intended to be funny, Trexler says, noting that the pictorial humor could go over the heads of some offended adults.
  — Michael Cavna, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• Tom Fox won first place in the pictorial category for an image of a rainbow and an airplane in flight.
  — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 15 May 2021
• The pictorial forms are stark and flat, although enhanced by dappled colors, in most of Curren’s works.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Watching it yet again, I was struck by the pictorial elegance and dynamism of the aerial sequences.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• If men are allowed to enjoy pictorial sexts from lovers, why can’t their partners?
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 4 Apr. 2018
• The cardboard pictorial cards are still sought today for their art and messaging.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2021
• When the programme revealed the damage caused by plastic in the world’s oceans, Tory MPs tweeted out the government’s plans to stop this evil, alongside a pictorial menagerie of seabirds and whales.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• Though tarot decks date back to the 1400s, pictorial cards were originally used for games rather than prediction.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Feb. 2018
• There’s a beautiful pictorial graphic sense to a lot of his work, but a lot of his writing is vaguely repellent.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2022
• With their help, along with the influence of the more pictorial style of tattooing employed in Japan, the trend became fashionable once again in Europe.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2021
• How do depictions of the halo change as pictorial space grows complex.
  — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• The relatives on his father’s side had owned cameras for more than a century, leaving a pictorial record of New England life going back to the 1890s.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2021
• Reading a comic book as God intended is a simple pleasure and as such, our precious pictorial pamphlet, like vaudeville and the magic lantern, is just the sort of thing that gets crushed in the gears of progress.
  — Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
• This led me to go beyond conventions not only of pictorial structure but of content, too.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2023
• In her pictorial world, fairies dance in the forest, toddlers swim naked, and older children are all tidy, cooperative and nicely dressed.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps the most topical subtext of this book is one of Blackness — both political and pictorial.
  — Adrian Dannatt, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024