How to Use visual aid in a Sentence

visual aid

noun
  • Echo Dot with Clock keeps all of this, but adds in a visual aid.
    Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Or tore out pages and added them to a list as a visual aid for Santa Claus.
    Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 Dec. 2017
  • As students learn songs by heart, the visual aid can be turned off.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Pierce used the bas-relief project as a visual aid for preaching.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2020
  • His visual aids seemed tailor-made for a president whose love of maps and charts is well known.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
  • Captain Marvel’s strength is in her story rather than the visual aids.
    Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2019
  • Fox also reports that there have been examples of the poncho placed around the school as visual aids to prepare all of the girls for the night-of.
    Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 1 May 2018
  • Tillerson appeared with a visual aid, a map showing air traffic across Asia on one day.
    Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Someone on the committee objected at one point, but the visual aids were allowed to stay.
    Aaron Blake, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • Almost everything but the bases had already been rebuilt as a visual aid for tourists.
    Max Pearl, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
  • It was intended to be used as a visual aid for a class presentation.
    Anne Branigin, The Root, 14 Feb. 2018
  • That’s a neat visual aid to tell you that an application can access voice and/or video data from your phone.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Garrett Wilson even brings up a visual aid to back up his complement.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Ahead, learn how to make your own pallet bed frame with her step-by-guide, and then watch the video tutorial for a visual aid before you get started.
    Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Pulling in a visual aid as evidence, London shared a piece of paper containing a list of the three actresses vying for the role in 2005.
    Justine Browning, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Check this site, which has excellent visual aids (and treatment supplies).
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
  • But somehow, his dominating stat sheet doesn't quite do it justice, so here are some visual aids.
    Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
  • There are fidget toys and other games as well as visual aids to help provide a distraction and calm anxiety.
    Anne M. Peterson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Polensek brought in visual aids to raise concern about what constitutes 200 grams of marijuana – about 7 ounces.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The trunks allow teachers to have more resources to use, provide visual aids that really help students who aren’t clicking with the textbook.
    Brooke Lamantia, ExpressNews.com, 22 July 2019
  • Stealing signs is one of baseball’s oldest bits of gamesmanship and is only considered dirty if teams use visual aids of some sort.
    Dan Gartland, PEOPLE.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Netanyahu's speech Monday was delivered in English and relied on his trademark use of visual aids.
    Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • But on Twitter, in direct messages, Calvin Barnes talked about his fantasies of daddy-daughter, uncle-niece and provided visual aids.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Mueller on Tuesday used a screen set up in the courtroom and a PowerPoint presentation as a visual aid to bolster his argument for Masterson’s guilt.
    Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The poster was intended as a visual aid in welcoming surviving Red Army soldiers back to civilian life and to the daunting task of rebuilding the Soviet Union at the end of the devastating war.
    Sasha Senderovich, The New Republic, 29 May 2018
  • There were lots of photos and visual aids, simple messages typed out in big block letters — the kinds of things Trump reportedly likes to see when receiving information.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Another technique that helps Carter is the curriculum visual aids used by Goldfish instructors.
    Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2018
  • Both figures suggest that the Church’s preachment would be inaccessible to the majority of the English people in both Latin and the vernacular without some sort of visual aid.
    John Hirschauer, National Review, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The smaller Christus painting (a mere 7 5/8 by 5 ½ inches), on loan from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, most likely resided in Vos’s private quarters as a visual aid in his personal devotion.
    Peter Plagens, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Instead of just reading your textbook, try learning using podcasts, visual aids such as posters, presentations, and online blogs.
    Amina Youssef-Shalala, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019

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