Examples of pictograph in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The emoji really isn’t a modern concept, simply a pictograph rendered in a digital form. — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2022 In the 1970s Kohlmeyer developed a style of multihued pictographs, usually organized on a grid. — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020 The new emoji include useful pictographs such as a ninja, disguised face, polar bear, bubble tea, pickup truck, toothbrush, military helmet, two people hugging, and pinched fingers (also known as the Italian hand gesture). — cleveland, 30 Jan. 2020 The collection’s core design features a cave art-like pictograph of a long-necked water bird facing the spirit of a roaring panther with a fish over the source spring of the San Antonio River. — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 6 Jan. 2020 Before me were crude drawings, pictographs painted on the walls of the shallow cave by ancient civilizations that occupied this place thousands of years ago. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019 Roche-a-Cri has ancient pictographs from the ancestors of the local Ho-Chunk, who carved arrows, birds, figures, canoes and more into the rock, and used it to track astronomical events and local life. — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019 They were then shown an intentionally ambiguous image—in this case, a Chinese pictograph. — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 11 June 2018 Petroglyphs are pecked, engraved or polished designs on rock; pictographs are painted or drawn designs on rock. 60. — azcentral, 15 May 2015 See More

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