Sample Sentences for
depict
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  • On the manual's cover was a painting depicting a scene from the game.  (source)
    depicting = showing
  • In the Honolulu Advertiser, Louie found a cartoon depicting his role in bombing Wake.  (source)
  • Dad told me about all his plans and showed me his pages of graphs and calculations and geological charts, depicting the layers of sediment where the gold was buried.  (source)
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  • It was an odd idea to have about someone he'd just met, but an unmistakable aura of resignation enveloped the man, as though he were one of those people depicted in cartoons who walked around with rain clouds over their heads, people whose change fell out of their pockets when they bent down to pick up a penny.  (source)
    depicted = shown
  • A photograph depicting hydrotherapy turned Dan's stomach.†  (source)
  • It is the artistry to depict them in which I am wanting.†  (source)
  • His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of some fallen angel.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • I went with black because it best depicts my mood today.†  (source)
  • There have been many Southerners in the job before, of course, but it was a little odd, being the offspring of poor, white Southerners, working for the newspaper that had been so unpopular among my people for its often unflattering depictions of them.†  (source)
  • Gods are almost always depicted as nude, because we are flawless beings.†  (source)
  • He's very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.†  (source)
  • Once again it became usual for works of art to depict the nude.†  (source)
  • Published a few months after the assassination, this work of fiction was filled with exaggerations and lies, but its cover was an accurate depiction of the shooting.†  (source)
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