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How to use depict in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, adjective

Depict means to render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means. Example: “Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.”

Examples of depict by meaning

verbTo render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

  • The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.1984, Lawrence Starr, “Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess”, in American Music, volume 2, number 2, page 27
  • Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.1987, Niall O'Loughlin, “Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar”, in The Musical Times, volume 128, number 1734, page 443

More sentences with depict

  • Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.From the entry media
  • The political cartoon showed the politician as a caveman, clubbing the budget depicted as a mammoth.From the entry caveman
  • Homer makes Aphrodite the daughter of Zeus, unlike Hesiod who depicted her as born from the sea foam.From the entry make
  • In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line.From the entry atom
  • The novel depicts the debauchery of the ruling class.From the entry debauchery
  • This novel depicts a hetero couple who are in love.From the entry hetero
  • Medieval paintings often depict bishops in ornate vestments.From the entry vestment
  • The photographs of the killings depict a grisly scene.From the entry grisly
  • The attack campaign depicted snaking queues outside a Jobcentre.From the entry jobcentre
  • The shield depicts a pelican vulning herself.From the entry vuln
  • The company’s use of ads depicting gay couples appears to be merely tokenistic, particularly in view of the support it has given to anti-LGBT politicians.From the entry tokenistic
  • Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.2024, Christa Case Bryant, As US marks 9/11, a divided Congress unites to honor 13 fallen in Afghanistan, in: The Christian Science…. From the entry strain
  • In the children’s book Mary Smith, she’s depicted as waking up everyone from fishmongers to the mayor.2019, Paula Mejia, Remembering the "Knocker-Ups" Hired to Wake Workers With Pea Shooters. Rise and shine!…. From the entry knocker-up
  • Plenty of CGs pad out the adventure too, with beautiful art depicting the events that take place.2016 March 7, Andrew Barker, “Steins;Gate”, in RPGFan, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2019. From the entry cg
  • This figure depicts the three, six, nine, and twelve months performance of one-month alphasorted funds.2016, Venezia Itzhak, Behavioral Finance: Where Do Investors' Biases Come From?, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry alphasorted
  • Against such 'Guardianesque' idealism and misguided liberalism, Thatcher depicted herself as a supreme realist in international relations.2016, Andrew S. Crines, Timothy Heppell, Peter Dorey, The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher, page 85. From the entry Guardianesque
  • Nor can it be depicted as a federal state, like the United States.Europe as a Political…. From the entry political entity
  • An intralabyrinthine hemorrhage may also be solely depicted by unenhancend T1w MPR.2015 July 23, “Significant Artifact Reduction at 1.5T and 3T MRI by the Use of a Cochlear Implant with Removable Magnet: An Experimental…. From the entry intralabyrinthine
  • Karanjin (structure depicted in Figure 1 ) is a major active furanoflavonol constituent of Fordia cauliflora Hemsl.2015 July 26, Jian-Ru Guo et al., “Effects of karanjin on cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human A549, HepG2 and HL-60 cancer cells”, in…. From the entry furanoflavonol
  • Zeffirelli’s naturalistic sets, depicting a Latin Quarter peopled with crowds of Parisian streetfolk, revelers, merchants and children.2015 November 24, Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Review: Franco Zeffirelli's 'La Bohème' Revisits a Take on Love and Loss”, in New York Times. From the entry streetfolk
  • In the “Taxonavigation” the path in the taxonomy leading to the species is depicted.2014, S Arroyo, K Siorpaes, “ONTOLOGIES AND ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES”, in Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific, page…. From the entry taxonavigation
  • Figure 5.1 depicts a small example of tactical technology called a sleeping dragon.[2014, Hank Johnston, What is a Social Movement?. From the entry sleeping dragon
  • In RWS-influenced decks, the Sun card depicts a single gleeful child.2014, Mark McElroy, A Guide to Tarot Card Meanings, page 80. From the entry RWS
  • The brightest object depicted is Jupiter which stands near the red giant star Aldebaran in Taurus.2012 December 9, Alan Pickup, The Guardian. From the entry Aldebaran
  • A demeaned version of this time series x is depicted in ( B ) .2011, Mario Heiderich, Eduardo Alberto Vela Nava, Gareth Heyes, Web Application Obfuscation, page 93. From the entry demeaned
  • On a twelfth-century capital in the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Vézelay, David and Goliath are depicted fighting.2009, Janetta Rebold Benton, Materials, Methods, and Masterpieces of Medieval Art, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry ventail
  • The central painting, depicting Circe's palace, is compositionally and stylistically different than the rest of the frieze.2009, Umberto Pappalardo, The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting, page 91. From the entry stylistically
  • Zardar in this book nuancely depicts the role of Muslim Intellectual.2008 June 23, damodar prasad, “Breaking the Monolith”, in Green Youth Movement (Usenet). From the entry nuancely
  • Imagine our outrage if the foreign press depicted Aryan groups as representing mainstream Christianity.2006, Margaret Kleffner Nydell, Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times, Intercultural Press,, →ISBN, page 106. From the entry Aryan
  • A Maya figure is depicted with earflares, a type of ear ornament.2005, Lila Perl, The Ancient Maya, page 26 (image caption). From the entry earflare
  • Above: Maya effigy vessel depicting a red coati or opposum with some anthropomorphic traits.2004, Hope B. Werness, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in Art, page 88. From the entry coati
  • Australian aborigines symbolically depict totems on stones called churinga or on wood used as bullroars.2004, H. Sidky, Perspectives on Culture: A Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice…. From the entry bullroar
  • In the lowest diagram the maximal echo reduction according to Eq. 6.76 is depicted.2003 September 8, Simon Haykin, Bernard Widrow, editors, Least-Mean-Square Adaptive Filters, volume 2, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry reverbation
  • The content of these glyphs is the content of the layer they depict.2002, David B. Leake, Yolanda Gil, IUI 02: 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, page 75. From the entry metalayer
  • At right, a third-century B.C. silver tetradrachmon depicts Alexander the Great.2002 January 18, Mila Andre, “Museo Drive: Fed exhibit makes the world go ’round”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., page 71. From the entry tetradrachmon
  • Roundel depicting dragon attacked by qilins; mounted on an album page.2001, David J. Roxburgh, Prefacing the image: the writing of art history in sixteenth-century Iran. From the entry qilin
  • It is usually one that depicts the perfect world, in which nothing goes wrong.2000, Paul R. Reed, Developing Applications with Visual Basic and UML, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry happy path
  • Homosexuals weren't depicted in the media in a positive light, if at all.1997, The Advocate, number 742, page 9. From the entry homosexual

Meaning of depict

  1. verb To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
  2. adjective Depicted.

Full definition of depict

Questions about depict in a sentence

How do you use depict in a sentence?
Depict is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “Fighter pilots are depicted as cool in popular media like Top Gun.”
What is a short sentence with depict?
“The shield depicts a pelican vulning herself.”
What does depict mean?
Depict means to render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depict (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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