How to Use pixelated in a Sentence

pixelated

adjective
  • The digital world crept in as well, in the form of pixelated video-game looks.
    Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Cyber mannequins stood poised in pixelated versions of the looks shown on-screen.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • On The Atlantic’s old website, the type was small and pixelated.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Bored Apes and pixelated punk rockers are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The visual quality of the display is sharp, though things get a little pixelated in the color-see-through mode.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
  • This steam release accents a retro and pixelated art style with modern lighting and spell effects, and makes for a flashy and flavorful game.
    Jd Linville, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the right shoe starts with a black pigskin suede base and mixes in blurred and distorted details to represent the pixelated side.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • On my iPhone 11, the simple graphics look blurry and pixelated.
    PCMAG, 16 Dec. 2024
  • One wormhole wings your pod across a digital Atlantic and deposits you in front of a quaint green building on the banks of a pixelated river.
    Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The branches of the pine tree in the above photo appear blurry and pixelated, while the colors seem artificially bright.
    PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Cat and Andi are thrown together to work on the romance plotlines of a major video game release and love starts to bloom outside the pixelated world.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Each scene is a pixelated canvas — the sort of work of art that modern Redditors go crazy over — and filled with mysteries to uncover.
    Todd Martensgame Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • My own was for my Myspace in 2014, in my bedroom in the suburbs of Sydney, pixelated and pouty.
    Fariha Róisín, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Some are more pixelated than others, depending on the quality of their Wi-Fi; Elena is sort of smudged and moves in jerks.
    Anne Fadiman, Wired, 17 June 2020
  • Think pixelated logos, websites untouched since the AOL era and brand architectures so tangled by years of acquisitions and restructuring that even the founders can’t map them cleanly.
    James Fratzke, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Improved lighting techniques in the perpetually dark Raccoon City police station made for a vastly scarier and immersive atmosphere than the pixelated haze of before.
    George Yang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • No briefings, no hesitation; just pure pixelated patriotism.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026
  • Claims that Boyd is nothing more than a pixelated aspiring politician began gaining traction after voters had trouble finding much of a digital footprint for the candidate and a headshot used in his campaign material struck some as bearing the hallmarks of artificial intelligence.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Speaking from personal experience, there’s something intrinsically intimidating about being silently judged by an accomplished HR representative over a pixelated Zoom call.
    Ben Ambridge, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2026
  • The kaleidoscope of clashing patterns from fantastical florals, warped tartans, and Peruvian and pixelated textiles is essential to the Dries Van Noten DNA, while embracing knowledge of all cultures is the chicest way to live and dress.
    Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 12 Mar. 2026

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