How to Use depict in a Sentence

depict

verb
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  • The movie depicts the life of early settlers.
  • I like the way she depicts the characters in her novels.
  • In the drawing, the magic cap was depicted as a soft, black hat.
  • The photograph depicts the two brothers standing in front of a store.
  • Several of the architect's most famous buildings will soon be depicted on postage stamps.
  • Angels are usually depicted with wings.
  • The wall was painted with a large mural depicting famous scenes from American history.
  • The new one will depict bike lanes and a flat top grill with ham & eggs.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • To depict this in a film made in the Russia of today takes courage.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • The movie First Man vividly depicts one of these flights.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And as the film depicts, much remains unclear about the case.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The doors are carved to depict salmon, coyotes and eagles.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Among these is a set that depicts the moon in four of its phases.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • These kinds of pieces depict — and fetishise — Africans in subservient roles.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Tech startups love to depict their success as the survival of the fittest.
    — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Perry’s art will depict three rowers in a boat that runs the length of the building.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
  • They are joined by Susette Kelo, the woman whose life the movie depicts.
    — Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The letter is one of the first to depict Ghaisar as a person of color.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • The entire video and the depicting crime were less than two minutes.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Lopez’s video depicted what appeared to be bugs crawling near the top of the bus seat.
    — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2018
  • There are so many key moments to depict in the fall of a relationship, and in the dawn of a new one.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The plants are reliefs of stucco and depict reeds, ferns and rushes.
    — Houston Chronicle, 26 May 2018
  • The photo depicts a body (or two) artfully shaped in the sand.
    — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Each depicts a Black man, one in shorts, the other in a loincloth and shackles.
    — Michelle Aslam, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In fact, the 1998 painting depicts the view from his New York apartment.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • The even, blemish-free skin depicted in the first photo is gone in the second.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 24 Oct. 2023
  • One of the nearly life-size vinyl cling signs depicts a child curled up with a woman on the sidewalk.
    — Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2018
  • Using the center mark as a guide, mark a level line to depict the location of the top of the cleat.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 22 July 2021
  • The 75-foot-long float depicted six iconic moments from the war.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Isis’ son Horus, the great god commonly depicted with the head of a bird of prey.
    — Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023

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