How to Use vignette in a Sentence

vignette

noun
  • The film is a series of vignettes about living with cancer.
  • The play's program features a little vignette about each member of the cast.
  • But to some, the vignette was a reminder of what's left to achieve.
    Fortune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The book's content, which is written in vignettes, was pulled from the logbook Egenes kept at the time.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The response to our call for vignettes about home was robust.
    Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In one vignette, two guys cocked their gun, pulled masks over their faces and took off to rob someone.
    Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The world is not a gallery, with the most striking vignettes hung neatly at eye level.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This is equally true in the books, with each chapter being a sort of vignette.
    Sarah Schutte, National Review, 6 June 2021
  • In one vignette, the woman dreams of being a cat, then, as a cat, dreams of being a woman.
    Zoë Hu, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • This is expressed early in the film in a brief vignette that shows him with his kids, at home, on one of his rare days off.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The large space is arranged in layered vignettes that are composed like rooms, which is a nod to how the gallery started in the first place.
    Curbed, 26 May 2023
  • Here, the client’s dog lounges amid a vignette that features a Georgian gilt-wood mirror and walls sheathed in a Robert Kime silk.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Take a cue from this quaint living room and hang a garland across for a festive vignette.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The music is a character in the film that drives the story arcs for each vignette of character and scene.
    Jennifer E. Mabry, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That bond is in stark contrast to vignettes about Jagger and Richards teasing Jones.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Soon after, in lieu of an account of his trip to Lagos, Cole presents twenty-four vignettes of life in the city, one for each hour in the day.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The Marines' weapons and their hands also appear darker as a result of the vignette effect.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Out of context, the vignette could've played out in any episode, any season of the comedy streaming on Crave.
    Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 11 May 2021
  • In the hall, a painting by Canadian artist Jean Paul Lemieux crowns a rustic vignette.
    Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 July 2021
  • Then, create a discreet vignette that represents the person, and let the rest go.
    Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But then there’s an interruption or a blackout and the vignette ends.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The vignette will offer a tribute to football and movies, and showcase many top movies involving the sport.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The researchers input the text of each vignette, then ran through the questions presented in the manual for each case.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Turn them into a hilarious Elf on the Shelf vignette with this project.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Most stories are bite-sized, stand-alone vignettes grouped together by a shared theme.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This fun, retro choice enriches the vignette and feels more outdoorsy than, say, red, which would also have been too intense for the space.
    Elizabeth Quinn Brown, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • In the opening vignette the sensitive nephew of the town baker is struck dumb after an incident in his school.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • There is no shortage of charming autumnal vignettes to find in Leiper's Fork.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Start small by creating small tabletop vignettes – or limit the space by creating a reef-like refuge in your home office.
    Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Raw images show some barrel distortion at wide angles, the inward pincushion effect at longer focal lengths, and a vignette at f/2.8.
    PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024

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