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 there is an idea of how we’re depicted.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Or, as true my own faulty lens can ever depict them.
    — Amanda Uhle august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Among these is a set that depicts the moon in four of its phases.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And as the film depicts, much remains unclear about the case.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2023
  • One video pinned to his profile depicts him on a wild boar hunt, smoking a cigar.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The poster depicts a cartoon skeleton on a phone.
    — Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • These kinds of pieces depict — and fetishise — Africans in subservient roles.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The painting depicts a green-faced woman with one breast spilling out from her shirt.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026
  • To depict this in a film made in the Russia of today takes courage.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • Warren touted what the show will depict.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The image depicts a coat by Beene with its sleeves tied around itself.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The industry has come so far from what’s depicted in the show.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • The four-minute film depicts a teen trying to find himself after a tragedy.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
  • Tech startups love to depict their success as the survival of the fittest.
    — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The entire video and the depicting crime were less than two minutes.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The photo depicts a body (or two) artfully shaped in the sand.
    — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 22 Apr. 2018
  • 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 people in it are depicted as messy, earnest, and trying their best.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • What's the hardest thing about depicting love?
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
  • And, far too often, some of what's depicted on the show has happened.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 23 June 2017

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