How to Use iconographic in a Sentence

iconographic

adjective
  • Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
  • Instead, saints with the iconographic power of Mayan deities lined the walls.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
  • Oriol talks about the iconographic significance of a viaduct that was closed to be replaced.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Up sign that is definitely part of the iconographic language that Dread’s discussing.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The French designer’s creations draw from a vast iconographic repertoire.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • In the faith’s early years, the church adorned many of its buildings with iconographic symbols, says Roberts, the architect.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Holzinger is unabashedly committed to an iconographic project.
    — Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
  • This piece is a poem, a metaphorical rendering of wrestling with those stories, using iconographic texts.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the film's iconographic treatment of handguns turns into harsh reality.
    — David Hunter, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Designers continuously change the world, shaping the din of our daily lives with subtle iconographic cues.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Older mission patches tend to be more iconographic than their contemporary counterparts.
    — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2009
  • The pictorial and iconographic analysis reveals an intensity of light on the pubic area and the position of the prophet with the legs spread apart and left hand placed on this region.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2012
  • And unlike the cylinder seals, the hundreds of iconographic signs attributed to proto-cuneiform have only ever been found on tablets in southern Iraq.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • However, there was no physical evidence of the custom beyond iconographic and literary sources—until now.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • There’s an iconographic controversy, where Catholics worship art, statues of Jesus and Mary and crosses.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Such an iconographic challenge would go against The Heart Part 5’s simplistic, unclear politics.
    — Armond White, National Review, 11 May 2022
  • The styles merge the label’s signature silhouettes with Kusama’s iconographic designs and colorful brushstrokes.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The case for Picasso makes itself, with the preternatural range of his formal and iconographic leaps—forward, backward, and sideways—in what painting could be made, or dared, to do.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • If nothing else, the long iconographic tradition of Saint Sebastian in Western iconography gets a new chapter.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
  • With the exception of his famous paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans, Warhol is probably best known for these iconographic depictions of celebrities.
    — John J. Miller, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The golden, iconographic necklaces, headpieces, and bracelets, paired with Moroccan-style jester shoes, defined the label’s vision of a multicultural runway.
    — Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Any internal organs removed during the process were typically placed in canopic jars, each featuring an iconographic lid with one of the four sons of the Egyptian god Horus to protect each organ.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
  • On the Rue de Castiglione, the gallery displays works in different mediums that explore the cultural, iconographic, social and emotional complexity of sport.
    — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 23 July 2024
  • The Duffers draw primarily from the iconographic genre of the '70s and '80s for Stranger Things, which makes sense for a show so evocative of Amblin-style suburbs.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 31 May 2022
  • Some iconographic details of this mythical apocalypse that emerged around 1000 AD may have been influenced by astronomical events—notably comets and total eclipses.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Within a single salon, and amid its handful of workers and customers, Mbakam discerns the fault lines of modern life, analyzes them in terms of personal experience, and displays them with an enduring and exemplary iconographic power.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Its decorative and iconographic complexity are unparalleled, says Esther Rodríguez, one of the co-directors of the investigation.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026
  • Lucero based this suggestion on evidence gleaned from archaeological excavations, settlement maps, sediment cores, current wetlands, and iconographic and hieroglyphic records.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In Central America, vultures were regarded as extraordinary beings and appeared in many iconographic works as researcher Elizabeth Benson wrote.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Named after its founder, Italian art collector and writer Achille Bertarelli, the collection comprises different iconographic materials, estimated to be around 1 million pieces, including maps, posters, ex libris, postcards, ancient and modern art graphics, as well as architects’ archives.
    — Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 16 Jan. 2026

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