How to Use image in a Sentence

image

1 of 2 noun
  • His poem evokes images of the sea and warm summer days.
  • She studied her image in the mirror.
  • He is trying hard to improve his image.
  • The kids sat staring at the images on the TV screen.
  • The law suit has negatively affected the company's public image.
  • The images of kids putting on shoes for the first time.
    Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The first episode starts with the image of a haunted house.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The colors in the image vary from a milky white to a dark brown to a deep red.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 July 2023
  • The images show the trio in costume, holding hands in the grass.
    Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • If the image appears to be the wrong way round, that’s ok.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Dec. 2020
  • The lasting image was of a leader who was out of touch.
    Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The images showed her with an open wound on her forehead.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Why the black screenshot with no image from the show itself?
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2021
  • That image was with me the whole time, something about the power of that idea.
    al, 16 June 2022
  • The processing of the image is a second or two faster as well.
    Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Her family and friends will have to live with that image for the rest of their lives.
    Paul Newberry, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Is there any truth to that image of your writing process?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Bit by bit, the image of a man was taking shape in the study records, but what sort of man?
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
  • Some of these can be made out in the lower right of Webb’s new image.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The photo with Spears is the third image on Hilton’s post.
    Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 7 Jan. 2023
  • That image and this new one give us a closer look at how black holes work.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 July 2022
  • That’s a popular image of me around here, and so be it.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2017
  • The moment-of-death image spread across two full pages of the magazine.
    Lesley M.m. Blume, Town & Country, 28 May 2021
  • In that respect, the new right can be viewed as a negative image of the woke left.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Her image — on stamps, coins and bank notes — was among the most reproduced in the world.
    Jill Lawless, ajc, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The image on the right shows the lettuce after 10 days.
    Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 May 2021
  • This camera will give you great contrast and tone on all your retro images.
    Popular Science, 5 Apr. 2020
  • Many of us are moved by images of crying children, alone and scared.
    Nina Bahadur, SELF, 13 July 2018
  • The postcard featured an image of three hands in the air — one black, one brown, one white.
    Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The historic first image of a black hole unveiled last year has now been turned into a movie.
    Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2020
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2 of 2 verb
  • Lien’s images play with time and space to convey a sense of the subject.
    Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Very rarely is the source of a quake so directly imaged.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And, needless to say the whole imaged fit the theme perfectly.
    Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 10 July 2018
  • For most of that time, few of the men could image being led by a woman.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al.com, 8 July 2019
  • The team then used imaging algorithms to fill in the gaps and piece together the photo.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 5 Sep. 2019
  • One thing the teams want to do is image the internal anatomy of the creature.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Dec. 2021
  • This allows for the cell to be imaged in a faster, gentler, and more detailed way.
    Nick Lunn, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, his colleagues sliced the stones thin for imaging.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • For one, the cost often depends on the type of imaging a provider orders, the experts said.
    Julia Landwehr, Health, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Using tools on the surface, researchers were able to image far below the ice.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 May 2022
  • But why would a secret aircraft fly in full view of imaging satellites?
    Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • Lawyers for Elsharkawi believe that his phone was imaged.
    Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
  • This makes the sensor large enough to image a part of the sky that is equal to 40 full moons.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Bennett relies on side-imaging sonar to scan the area while an angler fights a tarpon.
    Doug Olander, Field & Stream, 21 May 2020
  • Or maybe the campaign revealed what his closest friends never imaged him to be.
    Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Cassini discovered new rings and imaged where moons disturb the arcs of these rings.
    Dean Regas, Cincinnati.com, 25 July 2017
  • The boulders are some of the faintest things ever imaged inside our solar system.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 July 2023
  • The excess light doesn’t help image the sample; in fact, all that bright light may quickly burn the cell and kill it.
    Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 21 May 2013
  • And being able to image transits multiple times helps pile up the data as well.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Many simply go to the clinic or imaging center that their doctor might mention.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Still, the team managed to use an electron microscope to image thousands of slices of the insect’s tiny brain.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Our choice was easier to arrive at than we ever could have imaged.
    Daniel Pund, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020
  • That hasn’t stopped people from imaging what hanging out on martian soil might be like, though.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The submarine will travel up and down a swath of ocean in a lawn mowing pattern, using sonar to image the seafloor.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2020
  • View a select gallery of this year’s Front Page images below.
    Mike Rose, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Over thousands of years, this creates the kind of dunes imaged by New Horizons.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2018
  • Some older satellites image the earth in the infrared, even though they were not designed to spot methane.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Weaver will have follow up imaging on his arm either later this week or early next week.
    Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 22 July 2019
  • Venus’ thick cloud cover has long stymied both ground- and space-based efforts to image this hellish planet.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The heart has to be stressed (through exercise or a medication that makes the heart work harder) and imaged in some way.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023

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