How to Use verisimilitude in a Sentence

verisimilitude

noun
  • Not all of the attempts to heighten verisimilitude pay off.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • There’s stealth in Garrone’s approach: for the most part, the story sticks to a low-key, rough-hewn verisimilitude.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The version that lives in our heads, in perfect verisimilitude.
    — Yussef Cole, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Eagle-eyed hippies might spot a crack in the verisimilitude.
    — Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 12 June 2024
  • The sisters are stunned by the verisimilitude of Sachi’s rendering, and Sachi is in turn thrilled with their response.
    — Sarah Archer, The Atlantic, 21 July 2021
  • That verisimilitude was lacking a bit with the HoloBike.
    — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 May 2024
  • Above all, Conan Doyle excels in the you-are-there verisimilitude of his battle scenes.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
  • That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth.
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
  • John Quincy Adams is long dead, but the verisimilitude of the image brings him back to life in some way due to the reflexes awakened in my brain.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2013
  • Projections of the real ship and crew add verisimilitude, but this is not a docu-drama.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2017
  • The authors do cut the verisimilitude ever so slightly short, though.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
  • For the viewer, Davisson adds, there’s no verisimilitude with these kinds of recreations.
    — Janet Manley, Wired, 26 Nov. 2020
  • But there are larger issues with the film’s verisimilitude.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In the 1950s, a film crew using the rocks as a stand-in for Red Rock Canyon in Nevada painted them red for vermilion verisimilitude.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
  • No doubt Bartz's work as a therapist and creative coach adds some verisimilitude to the story.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024
  • For verisimilitude, Beanie Boy would be more likely to buy his instrument its own seat on a flight than risk damaging it in the jostling of the hordes.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Holbein’s portraits are renowned for their verisimilitude, but in Anne’s case, the painter may have flattered his sitter.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That's always my goal with my research, to bring that verisimilitude into things.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
  • Any discrepancy is used to adjust the speed of the video, in order to preserve verisimilitude.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • And while he’s been clean for nine years, the experience clearly helped lend a verisimilitude to all the scenes of dependence and getting high.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The director knew Ford would need to be de-aged with a level of verisimilitude that has proven elusive to filmmakers so far.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 June 2023
  • This might be easier to forgive if the verisimilitude of the film’s production design didn’t veer off the track at about exactly the same point.
    — Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Of course, working around real preteens upped the verisimilitude.
    — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 26 Feb. 2019
  • In part, that’s due to the fiction’s high level of verisimilitude — from L.A.’s dives and ratty apartments to the predictable patterns of addiction.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • In a sense, what causes Nikolai to fail his audition is his verisimilitude.
    — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The fact that Pym’s stories sometimes end nowhere can be viewed as verisimilitude, but an awful lot depends on contrivance.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • The draperies of his garment are a feat of verisimilitude, his face the image of otherworldly purity.
    — airmail.news, 30 Nov. 2024
  • So Sharolyn blends brown and yellow and black and white and red, and her final coats lighten and shade the Big Idaho Potato to burbank russet verisimilitude.
    — Bill Manny, idahostatesman, 20 June 2018
  • Over time, the shows evolved, moving toward a greater emphasis on verisimilitude.
    — EW.com, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Days earlier, Jeff Pearlman, who wrote the book on which the series is based, had defended the show against complaints about its verisimilitude.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 May 2022

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