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How to use imagery in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Imagery means the work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects. Example: “Satellite imagery has made many inaccessible areas much more mappable.”

More sentences with imagery

  • Satellite imagery has made many inaccessible areas much more mappable.From the entry mappable
  • The 3D imagery will make your eyes bug out.From the entry bug out
  • Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones.2026 April 9, V. S. Wadia, C. M. Reed, J. M. Chung, L. M. Bateman, A. N. Mamelak, “A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in…. From the entry ventral
  • The pictures are also a noted departure from the imagery of Ms.2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry digisphere
  • It’s an aesthetic that embraces sadness, strangeness, and the eerie magic woven through dark fairy-tale imagery.2025 August 20, Sterling Rhyn, “25+ Welwitschia Goth (whimsical emo) Crochet Patterns to Make”, in Cactus Lady Creation, archived from the…. From the entry Welwitschia Goth
  • Satellite imagery substantiates these developments, hinting at Ukrainian vehicles crossing Surovikin's Line.2023 September 21st, Tatarigami_UA, “Post № 1704726674435150186”, in 𝕏. From the entry Surovikin Line
  • Elements such as bows, butterflies, dresses, dolls, and blood are frequent in Welwitschia Goth imagery.2023 August 7, geezylps, Aesthetic August day 6: Welwitschia Goth. From the entry Welwitschia Goth
  • Non-devotee versions of such imagery might be easier to access for amputees involved in queercrip communities.2012, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability, page 353. From the entry queercrip
  • He was hooked immediately by the overheated imagery, the overblownness of it all.2011, Jason Zinoman, Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror, New…. From the entry overheated
  • The chapter 'The Wanderer' fully reflects a tragic, manic depressive temperament in bathyorographical imagery.2010, Malcolm Pasley, Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought: A Collection of Essays, Routledge, (unpaginated). From the entry bathyorographical
  • While QPOC are subtly excluded from mainstream gay imagery, more overt forms of racism persist as well.2009, Sheila Addison, Deborah Coolhart, “Integrating Socially Segregated Identities: Queer Couples and the Question of Race”, in Mudita…. From the entry QPOC
  • These record imagery from all three recce sensors - IR, EO and SAR.2006, Tony Holmes, US Marine Corps And RAAF Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom. From the entry recce
  • Korine wants to throw up the MTV-advertising world of perfect, chic imagery and fluent salesmanship.1997, David Denby, “Clawless”, in New York Magazine, volume 30, number 42, page 52. From the entry salesmanship
  • It is not necessary to keep talking to children about imagery.1990, John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1885-1953, page 253. From the entry visualist
  • Kaldor is an interesting lyricist, and it is easy to identify with her imagery.1985 December 14, Maida Tilchen, Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 8. From the entry romantic
  • Their high level of form-perception and retentive memories are based on recognition, resensation and edetic imagery.1964, Richard Ralph Straub, A View of the Levels of Perceptual Development in Autistic Syndromes, page 37. From the entry edetic
  • As a consequence the inexperienceed introspectionist is likely to confuse kinæsthetic imagery with kinæsthetic sensations.1927, Robert Harvey Gault, Delton Thomas Howard, Outline of General Psychology, Longmans, Green and Co., page 262. From the entry kinæsthetic
  • Animal studies have yielded rich insight into mechanisms for visual perception, but the neural mechanisms for visual imagery remain poorly understood.2026 April 9, V. S. Wadia, C. M. Reed, J. M. Chung, L. M. Bateman, A. N. Mamelak, “A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in…. From the entry ventral
  • Niditch points out that "the river imagery has Edenesque qualities—all is provided in an ultimate fulfillment of the Deuteronomic blessings.2012, Brian Neil Peterson, Ezekiel in Context, page 323. From the entry Edenesque
  • The result is imagery hazened, a studied, a crafted indistinction.2004 January, S[tanley] E. Gontarski, “An Art of Incompletion: A Preface”, in Journal of Beckett Studies, volume 14, numbers 1–2…. From the entry vaguen
  • The most ‘conflictarian’ type of imagery in the corpus is provided by metaphors of war and military action.2000, Andreas Musolf, Mirror Images of Europe: Metaphors in the Public Debate about Europe in Britain and Germany. From the entry conflictarian
  • As its imagery becomes more surreal and mystically abstract, Mr.1997 December 24, Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Kundun”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jan 2016. From the entry music of the spheres
  • Auditory, tactual, and olfactory imagery are also "modeled."1978, The Stanford Engineer, volume 8, page 6. From the entry imaginarium
  • In contemporary imagery, it is the view of an airplane passenger looking serenely downward from miles above the ground.1964, John Alexander Mackay, Ecumenics: the science of the church universal, page 140. From the entry frog's view
  • While these geoviewers introduced satellite imagery to young learners around the globe, they rarely went beyond simple location or measurement tasks to do analysis.2025, Sarah W. Bednarz, Jerry T. Mitchell, Handbook of Geography Education, page 375. From the entry geoviewer
  • The black-and-white wide-screen photography is hyperlucid, especially in landscape shots, but the digital imagery lacks the lived-in warmth and organic feel of film.2015 September 10, Nicolas Rapold, “Review: In ‘Home From Home,’ a Blacksmith’s Son Dreams of a Different World”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperlucid
  • By this generous, almost communistic imagery, we are all aswim in the same great gene pool, or fishers from the river of human perpetuity.2014, Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (Revised and Updated). From the entry aswim
  • Lanternists first used glass slides as a surface for hand-drawn and photographic imagery and, in the 20th century, glass was replaced by 35mm film transparencies.2014, Ludwig Vogl-Bienek, Richard Crangle, Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914. From the entry lanternist
  • Like Curtis, Palmer wanted to capture in photographs his perceptions of a people, his own people in the mountains, his own imagery of Appalachianness.2014 July 11, Jean Haskell Speer, The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN. From the entry Appalachianness
  • The imagery is that of marriage, the iconographic theme was borrowed from the banquet, but these divine couples are not participating in a symposion.2011, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, “Dionysos, the Banquet and Gender”, in Renate Schlesier, editor, A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient…. From the entry symposion
  • "Readers are treated to a tilt-a-whirl of emotions and imagery, ranging from laugh-out-loud comedy, to the brooding tragedy typical of Brown's work."2007, Jay Watson, Conversations with Larry Brown. From the entry laugh-out-loud
  • The theorist Brett Steele sees in Mies van der Rohe the fist ‘Photoshopper’, the architect who anticipated our present-day modes of producing and processing imagery.2004, L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, nn 350–351, University of Michigan, p 104. From the entry photoshopper
  • The State Fair's advertised imagery was the same every year: the State Fair was red-barn, verdant, lakes and livestock and bright, circley suns.2002, Gary Sernovitz, Great American Plain, page 11. From the entry circley
  • Devotees recite texts or prayers extolling the exceptional qualities of the deity such as omnipotence, omnicognizance and omniscience in physical imagery during worship.1998, Natubhai Shah, “Supernormal Forms of Knowledge”, in “Jain Logic”, in Jainism: The World of Conquerors, volume 2, Brighton, East…. From the entry omnicognizance
  • In this film, the almost antidramatic construction and the lack of depth in the characters cause the viewer to focus on the imagery.1988 June 17, Fred Camper, “Wide West”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antidramatic
  • Mention of dinosaurs, pterodactyls and gorgosauruses in particular, recurs in the Tenth and Eleventh Cantos as part of his geological imagery (CN, 45-55).1987, Valerie Broege, “Puer Country: Imaging Canada and Its American Shadow”, in Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian…. From the entry gorgosaurus
  • In a light copper series of issues belonging to Peroz C and Peroz D, the imagery closely imitates that of the scyphates.1985, Museum Notes, American Numismatic Society, →ISBN, page 240. From the entry scyphate
  • Above we find a paraphrasal of the “Suffering Servant” imagery of Jesus, although the understanding presented here is not that which interpreters see in Scripture.1971 October, Carey Landry, Dan Onley, Joe Wise, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Medium and the Message: A Guide for Religious Educators…. From the entry paraphrasal
  • There is richness in every verse, with ever now and then a bit of imagery that must inevitably stamp itself upon even an infraordinary intelligence.1904 February, “Books and Writers”, in Sunset, volume XII, number 4, San Francisco, C.A.: Southern Pacific, page 368, column 2. From the entry infraordinary
  • It also packs on another 52 minutes and three new songs, trades zany for demure and swaps vast animated land- and seascapes for soundstagey sets and screensavery imagery.2023 May 24, Wesley Morris, “'The Little Mermaid' Review: Disney's Renovations Are Only Skin Deep”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry screensavery

Meaning of imagery

  1. noun The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
  2. noun Imitation work.
  3. noun Images in general, or en masse.

Full definition of imagery

Questions about imagery in a sentence

How do you use imagery in a sentence?
Imagery is used as a noun. For example: “Satellite imagery has made many inaccessible areas much more mappable.”
What is a short sentence with imagery?
“Auditory, tactual, and olfactory imagery are also "modeled."”
What does imagery mean?
Imagery means the work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.

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