How to Use pictograph in a Sentence

pictograph

noun
  • The cliff seemed like a logical place to look for the pictographs.
    — Jim Hoagland, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Hang out at the famous black sand beach or meander the six miles of trails through ancient sites and pictographs.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Each group has left its mark, from ancient cave dwellings to petroglyphs and pictographs etched into the canyon walls.
    — Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The rock art consists of a collection of petroglyphs and pictographs found inside a small cave next to the trail.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Aside from looking for pictographs, visitors here can geocache, mountain bike, hike, and more.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
  • These pictographs, like the smiley-face caricature, are self-portraits too.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • Big Bend National Park has it all — vast amounts of open space, rivers, canyons, pictographs, and hot springs.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Dialogue takes place through pictographs symbolizing concepts like home and ideas.
    — Doug Cornelius, WIRED, 30 July 2009
  • These new additions bring the total count of available pictographs to 3,664.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • A touch of a screen will turn today’s white paper into tomorrow’s pictograph or audio abstract.
    — Bob Pearson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Aside from pictographs, Hueco Tanks is great for rock climbing, hiking, bird-watching, and camping.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
  • For an overnight trip, take the 22-mile Painted Cave trail, which features a pictograph panel.
    — Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Our morning canoe run was to be only a quick look at promising pictograph locations on the main arm of Missinaibi.
    — Jim Hoagland, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Panels of petroglyphs and pictographs reveal the canyon’s millennia-old appeal.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 11 June 2017
  • Occasionally, two or three of Baras’ roughly hewn pictographs on burlap, wood and canvas appear to be shouting across the gallery.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • But if surviving a plane crash isn’t motivation enough, there are other compelling reasons to check out that plastic pictograph.
    — Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2017
  • The pictograph is read from right to left at the beginning, then each subsequent line is read from the opposite direction of the previous.
    — Carin Schoppmeyer, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Participants also can join field trips to Mine Wash and pictograph and petroglyph sites.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Early humans first discovered this cave system some 5,000 years ago and left behind pictographs made by firelight.
    — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The emoji really isn’t a modern concept, simply a pictograph rendered in a digital form.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2022
  • They were then shown an intentionally ambiguous image—in this case, a Chinese pictograph.
    — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 11 June 2018
  • As the 4,000-year-old pictographs still visible along its steep canyon walls attest, it is saturated in history.
    — Stephen Harrigan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Here are steep-sided canyons etched with 4,000-year-old pictographs painted in blood and ochre by Finland’s Stone Age settlers.
    — Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2017
  • In California, there are century-old pictographs drawn by the Yokuts that appear to show a family of giant creatures with long, shaggy hair.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Arabic is the outcome of centuries of trade, innovation and communication, never letting go of the beauty of symbols, pictographs and glyphs.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The mural's diamonds, pinwheels, cubes and pictographs suggest a freestyle Native American rug, its trails of dripping ink like loose, dangling threads.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • In the 1970s Kohlmeyer developed a style of multihued pictographs, usually organized on a grid.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The roughly 1,000-year-old pictographs depict how various animals, including beavers, created the world.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Additionally, Medicine Rock, a sacred spot with ancient pictographs used for rituals and healing, is also located at the base of Chokla.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • Understanding that motifs from seals are directly related to the pictographs that would eventually lay the foundation for the first writing system shows how meaning was transferred from motifs to script, the study authors said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024

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