How to Use moving picture in a Sentence

moving picture

noun
  • Or take in a moving picture show at whatever cinema may still exist in your part of the world.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 15 May 2026
  • Clips not only conjure these same vivid memories, but also bring them to life in moving pictures.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Think about the canonical moving pictures of the civil-rights movement.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The 1930s saw the rise of the Western genre in this new art form called moving pictures.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2018
  • An outsider to the electronic scene, Lee's film paints a moving picture of the culture.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The concept of the cat-and-mouse hunt between spy and supervillain dates all the way back to the earliest days of moving pictures.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2020
  • By stark contrast, no one these days runs screaming from a movie theater to escape certain ruin from the moving picture of an onrushing choo-choo.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This may be an opportunity to get organized for tax season, take in a moving picture, or make time for someone special.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Love the way artists experiment with moving pictures and you’ll likely be entranced, and for quite a number of hours; this is a big and time-consuming show.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • In fact, scientists have speculated that fire was once used near petroglyphs to create a moving picture effect.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • Kali’s daughter Susan has recently come across a new stash of film—as in moving picture film—that is slowly being digitized.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022
  • At the same time that moving pictures were capturing the public's imagination, aviation was doing the same thing.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Get the gent talking about the moving pictures in any way, shape or form, however, and the result always tends to fall between mind-expanding and mind-blowing.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2024
  • In the past century technology and business models have helped shape the message in moving pictures—nowhere more so than in television.
    — The Economist, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Choose a few from each category and your garden will keep working through the hottest stretch of the year — with the bonus of pollinators that turn the whole thing into a moving picture.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • An avid magic and optical illusions fan, an undeniable sense of mystery penetrates many of his still and moving picture works.
    — Nickole Kerner Bobley, Houston Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Each of them started in the early days of live-TV drama, eventually finding their way into the moving pictures.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The brand used to release slide and moving picture projectors under the Pradovit name, according to New Atlas.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
  • And when electronic and performing media came along in the 20th century, artists picked up new tools and toys, from moving pictures to recordable and replayable sound.
    — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 24 June 2019
  • It’s primarily done with compositing techniques and in some cases could be thought of as a moving picture equivalent of Photoshop touch ups.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Today, computerized weather prediction—like moving pictures or flying by plane—is so commonplace that smartphone-users don’t give it a second thought.
    — Sarah Witman, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • Kidder is said to have been a prominent moving picture theatre musician of Philadelphia, where his parents now reside.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • For me, that usually means five nights in a tent in Maine in August, with my family, way too many mosquitoes, and absolutely no moving pictures.
    — Ellen Gray, Philly.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But more than anything the CNN brand stands for news brought to you in moving pictures and sound with an onscreen anchor or correspondent acting as a trusted guide.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 July 2024
  • The camera converts infrared energy into an electronic signal to create moving pictures.
    — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
  • When your newspaper has moving pictures and everyday objects sometimes talk to you, then the internet does not seem a particularly exciting place.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Pugh has a way of reminding you why a close-up is the single best gift the moving pictures have given us, as well as somehow making her reactions to a lot of melodramatic business seem organic.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • From the very birth of the moving picture in the late 19th century, the revolutionary medium has had an inherent fascination with its own creation.
    — Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But perhaps none of those books is as tender as this moving picture book about Yamasaki told from the perspective of his granddaughter, Katie Yamasaki.
    — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Nagel had decided to try his luck in the moving pictures within a few years of graduating from college, and studio executives were sold on his wholesome Midwestern good looks.
    — Nancie Clare, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 Feb. 2018

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