How to Use imagery in a Sentence

imagery

noun
Definition of imagerynext
  • The movie was full of biblical imagery.
  • The book contains a great deal of sexual imagery.
  • View the codex and search its text and imagery at florentinecodex.getty.edu.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean he’s not still drawn to dark imagery.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
  • And a lot of my imagery and music was on the darker side of things.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The imagery has a spin to it, as if we too were being enswooned by it all.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The imagery on these records would echo across rap’s landscape.
    — Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The first slide of the secure-in-place portion of the training includes the clip art imagery.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Ads played up the John Williams score and the now-iconic imagery of Jaws emerging from the water.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 18 June 2024
  • Part of the beauty of the imagery comes from Lachman shooting on black-and-white stock.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But at the time, I was simply overwhelmed by the power of its imagery.
    — James Gray, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The imagery picks up in interest as the show proceeds, too.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
  • The imagery and the meaning behind it are more complex.
    — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Filled with Catholic imagery, cookies in this monastery are sold by the half kilo.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
  • And the title of the album is Heaven Is a Junkyard, so that imagery runs throughout the record.
    — Leah Lu, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • The brightening on this imagery is the auroa over it last night.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • As seen in throwback ’90s red carpet imagery, power suits were all the rage at the time.
    — Adam Mansuroglu, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
  • There’s a lot of tired Y2K imagery going around, for instance.
    — Eliza Brooke, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2023
  • The look that made the world tremble was putting her in the Vetements sweatshirt with the Titanic [imagery].
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The imagery was not subtle; billboards around town flashed Trump as Jesus, and a man dragged a cross up and down the side of the highway.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The imagery shows vehicle tracks progressing across the width of Gaza south of Gaza City.
    — Dylan Moriarty, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Indeed, the Fort Worth show displays the breadth of his imagery and approaches.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • An earthquake hit the Bay Area, and for more than a week, the whole state was immersed in the imagery of seismic catastrophe.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 June 2024
  • When placed together, the cards tell a tale, so envision the story based on the imagery.
    — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
  • Both are built around footage of New York shot in 1988 by Steven Siegel, whose imagery is featured on the new album’s cover art.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Many Instagram users took the imagery as a call for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war and praised the artist for being vocal on the issue.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Instead of avoiding the film’s scary imagery, Davis advised watching the film again.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • As its name and imagery allude, the record, released last month, finds its writers at a crossroads.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • Those kind of circles can be seen elsewhere in the convent, filled with Christian imagery.
    — Fernanda Pesce, ajc, 7 Oct. 2022
  • L'affaire Wonka is also a cautionary tale about the rise of AI imagery in marketing.
    — Rebecca Messina, The Week Uk, theweek, 30 Dec. 2024

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