Sentence examples for depicts from high-quality English sources.

• Some sexually explicit material involves or depicts children.

• At the premiere, Mr Kaczynski said the film “simply depicts the truth”.

• I think children are drawn to him because the world he depicts is a completely self-contained, parallel reality.

• “Billions” depicts the collision of two high-powered and morally complex worlds: hedge funds and federal prosecutors.

• Blackthorn’s physical characteristics make it a popular baddie - folk lore depicts it as dangerous as well as useful.

• Northern Territory sculptor Jack Nawilil depicts a Balngarra Clan burial ceremony with Bininj (human) bones wrapped in paperbark.

• Sebastiane is frank and unapologetic about nudity and gay relationships, and proudly depicts same-sex lovemaking as fun and sensual.

• The painting depicts Venus and other mythological figures, and has been gawked at by tourists and studied by academics for centuries.

Use depicts in a sentence.

• Now considered one of the major modern English novels, the story depicts the nightmarish world of an alcoholic Englishman living in Mexico.

• A LinkedIn chart shown above depicts how hiring rates have steadily dropped in China, Italy, and the United States since the beginning of February.

• In one piece called Democracy Maze from 1972, it depicts an endless maze of words, including “democracy, equality, freedom”, where civilians get lost.

• In a powerful composition specially commissioned by BBC Radio 3, The M1 Symphony depicts how the M1 has transformed the British landscape and millions of lives.

• "Bombshell" depicts a 2015 presidential debate question that Kelly asked Donald Trump: "You've called women you don't like 'fat pigs,' 'dogs,' 'slobs,' and 'disgusting animals.'

• The priest was a longtime friend of Fischer’s (in real life, he was close with Fischer since Fischer was a boy, though the movie depicts him coming into his life somewhat later).

• The simplest experiential theory is that a picture depicts an object of a certain kind by causing a spectator to have the visual experience she would normally have if she saw the kind of object it depicts.

• The museum's interim director says the scene, which vividly depicts a lion attacking a camel and the man riding it, has disturbed some because it depicts violence against a man described as an Arab courier.

depicts sentence examples

• The “bruised self-image” of the president’s daughter, Sanderson wrote, “does not change the fact that this billboard accurately depicts her support of a federal response that has utterly failed to prevent an unmitigated tragedy for the United States”.

• Like that secret history, the Afghanistan Papers’ accumulated oral history depicts a war mired in failure – in sharp contrast to the “misleading” story told to the US and British publics by officials in massaged figures and over-optimistic assessments.

• “Taking Father Home”: In his first feature, made independently for a few thousand dollars, the Chinese director Ying Liang—who was later forced into exile—depicts a child on a desperate errand in the face of abandonment, displacement, and official indifference.

• Artemisia National Gallery, London; October-24 January 2021 (temporarily closed) Non-stop theatre from the magnificently original and dynamic Italian baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who seems to live inside every role she depicts: lover, outraged victim, nation-saving heroine.