How to Use depict in a Sentence

depict

verb

• 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
• And as the film depicts, much remains unclear about the case.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2023
• Among these is a set that depicts the moon in four of its phases.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• The doors are carved to depict salmon, coyotes and eagles.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Tech startups love to depict their success as the survival of the fittest.
  — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
• To depict this in a film made in the Russia of today takes courage.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2022
• The entire video and the depicting crime were less than two minutes.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023
• Perry’s art will depict three rowers in a boat that runs the length of the building.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
• The plants are reliefs of stucco and depict reeds, ferns and rushes.
  — Houston Chronicle, 26 May 2018
• Lopez’s video depicted what appeared to be bugs crawling near the top of the bus seat.
  — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2018
• The movie First Man vividly depicts one of these flights.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• The letter is one of the first to depict Ghaisar as a person of color.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• 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 photo depicts a body (or two) artfully shaped in the sand.
  — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 22 Apr. 2018
• The four-minute film depicts a teen trying to find himself after a tragedy.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
• 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 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
• These kinds of pieces depict — and fetishise — Africans in subservient roles.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
• Many depicted a heart with a lightning bolt, but not all.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 2 Jan. 2024
• The worlds depicted in his novels are not built for mortal humans like you and me.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
• The image depicts a coat by Beene with its sleeves tied around itself.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2023
• The new memorial is the park's first to depict real-life women.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Apr 2024