How to Use photographic in a Sentence

photographic

adjective
  • Indeed, a photographic wall is aimed at the things such a tool will do wrong.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • To be clear, this was a photographic corona; no one saw it with their own eyes.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The photographic plate lights up bright right across from the slit and dims further away from it.
    — Matt Von Hippel, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025
  • His prose has a photographic quality that just takes my breath away.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
  • These are photographic films which capture the tracks of muons passing through them.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Click here for an intimate, photographic look back on his life.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
  • And the scene where the guy that used to own the photographic studio comes back in a terrible state.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The best photographic window is very short.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 May 2026
  • The sighting marks the first photographic evidence of a dhole in this area.
    — Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
  • Live clips are spliced with black-and-white clips of ’50s-era photographic shoots and runways.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 July 2024
  • The photo went viral, but there were others in the photographic arms race.
    — Josh Wingrove, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
  • But for right now, Oditt trains his focus on the photographic survey.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • As a form of art, photographic storytelling can give raw views that challenge how people see the world.
    — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • One of the two robbery victims later picked Lester out of a photographic line up.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 2 July 2019
  • This was a year and a half before the iPhone, and photographic evidence was scarce.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • About 2,000 photographic plates were used as part of the survey.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Is there a process for reviewing the photographic evidence when there is a dispute over a charge by mail?
    — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The figures’ bodies are hand-drawn, but their heads are all photographic images of Lee’s face.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 7 July 2018
  • And the collection holds more than just photographic negatives of the stars.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • The woman robbed at the bus stop was shown a photographic line-up that included Foster.
    — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 17 May 2018
  • For 2½ years, Boix stole the photographic evidence of their crimes.
    — Sara J. Brenneis, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Simond has also said that the rayon vert—the green ray—of the film’s title serves as an apt symbol of her photographic process.
    — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Whether in black and white or color, that idea has continued as a steady throughline across his photographic career.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Many of Penn’s most famous photographic works were shown but only one of the paintings—in a glass case in the last room of the show.
    — Lesley M. M. Blume, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Prior to Northridge, the data were recorded on photographic film chips by sensors out in the field.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Is there photographic or video evidence of the Phoenix Lights?
    — The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Next to the vials are photographic prints of the virus at work on kidney cells and T cells as well as a video installation.
    — S.h. | New York, The Economist, 15 July 2019
  • Five stained cloth draperies are slung from rods attached to the ceiling of the gallery, and seven or so frames present faint photographic images of weedy fields.
    — Charles Desmarais, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2018
  • It is based entirely on the photographic evidence and the memories of the men who were there.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • After photographic evidence of the sub, Nicol agrees to cover it in concrete and leave it on the ocean floor.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025

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