How to Use imagery in a Sentence

imagery

noun
  • The movie was full of biblical imagery.
  • The book contains a great deal of sexual imagery.
  • Jacir weaves in more salient archival imagery.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • No footage or imagery from this movie was shown.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Think about how the words align with the imagery and even the sounds.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • So all of the blue imagery in the show comes from this idea of deep time.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The songs play off the imagery of ice falling.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The imagery on these records would echo across rap’s landscape.
    — Tom Breihan, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • This is known as anamorphic imagery.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 14 May 2026
  • The imagery has a spin to it, as if we too were being enswooned by it all.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Some people might say lust, with all the hunger imagery, but love sounds good, too.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • And a lot of my imagery and music was on the darker side of things.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Honeycomb is such a big part of imagery around bees.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The imagery is often good enough to tell whether the area has campsites.
    — Outside Online, 9 June 2025
  • There’s lots of nature imagery.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The imagery mattered just as much as the records themselves.
    — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 22 May 2026
  • The translation squeaks and spooks with imagery of haunts and death.
    — Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Still, the album’s imagery suggests there may be more to it.
    — New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s also a lot of fox imagery, that fox screaming.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026
  • All the Rest is steeped in metaphors and imagery that evokes those spaces.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2026
  • Veloso’s imagery is one that lingers long after the film credits have rolled.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But aerial imagery shows springs pass through the old railway right-of-way.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The imagery for this new era has all been orange, the same color as the door.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, the air was so cold that it could be seen from space on infrared satellite imagery.
    — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Why did the horrible imagery have to be in there to begin with?
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 27 May 2022
  • The gold foil on top of the cocktails adds to the beauty imagery in the campaign.
    — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The brightening on this imagery is the auroa over it last night.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The name-calling and the stupid AI and the imagery has got to stop.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Satellite imagery helps tell a fuller story.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
  • Like all of Wilson’s work, herein lies a feast of charmed imagery.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026

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