How to Use stock photo in a Sentence

stock photo

noun
  • This stock photo shows a man and a dog in a park.
    — Isabel Van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Main image, a stock photo shows cooked shrimp.
    — Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The stock photo is on the left, and the AI fake is on the right.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 24 July 2024
  • Red and blue flashing police lights are seen at a crime scene in this generic stock photo.
    — Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The office provided stock photos of some of the items listed.
    — Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The visual equivalent of a stock photo.
    — Zak Ali, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • There wasn’t a picture of her on the site, just a stock photo of a burning candle — a placeholder for a life lost.
    — Calmatters, Daily News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The next image shows a stock photo of the T-shirt that was purchased during the couple’s visit.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The majority of the profile images appeared to be stock photos, and the job titles were all facetious.
    — Caroline Haskins, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Sometimes photos look a little too perfect—because some scammy listings use stock photos in their listing.
    — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 9 May 2023
  • Tacopina is a flashy, brawny bulldog of an attorney, like a stock photo of a New York City trial lawyer come to life.
    — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Digital products can range from e-books, online courses, stock photos, software, or even printables.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Several similar photos of the same church can be found on the stock photo site Getty Images.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In the age of content creation, countless professionals and day-to-day social media users have wasted tons of time scrolling through the same stock photo sites.
    — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Trust also comes bolstered by stock photos of kids in a classroom so as to reinforce the notion of an educational portal.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Eliminate listings that show more stock photos of the destination than of the Airbnb property itself.
    — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 9 May 2023
  • The organizations maintained bare-bones websites that used stock photos and short, generic descriptions.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • An editorial stock photo of a new USA passport.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • That means getting a personal look at the hotels and destinations available to book, instead of encountering the same stock photos.
    — Caitlin White, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The photographers for both as well as the model credited in the apparent stock photos used on Cress’s site did not respond to requests for comment.
    — Ashley Abramson, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Anyone could share their NIL and, in effect, put their digital double in the equivalent of a stock photo library.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2025
  • There is no public profile for Amelia Washington outside of the news site, and a reverse image search of the photo used with her bio suggests a stock photo was used.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
  • The last nine frames in the grid, which ran until 2032, were placeholders for the future, holding stock photos of silvergrass instead of students.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
  • Boasting panoramic views of the water, beachfront dining, and a spa so relaxing as to be borderline lobotomizing, the hotel offers a stock photo of a vacation.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Create a banner that communicates your value visually Your banner sits at the top of your profile, yet many people waste it on stock photos or leave the default blue background.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Transform your banner into a conversion tool Your banner displays prominently at the top of your profile, yet most people waste it on stock photos or leave the default blue background.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Allure found the same portraits on stock photo sites—and the images have been used on several other websites that seem unrelated to SexualAlpha.
    — Ashley Abramson, Allure, 22 Jan. 2025
  • However, the website’s about us page shares zero names and uses an impossibly good-looking set of very young analysts that a reverse image search reveals is almost guaranteed to be a stock photo.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Your commitment to innovation is clear from the stock photos of a diverse group of people deeply engaged in what appears to be a breakthrough moment involving a laptop and some very enthusiastic pointing.
    — Greg Mania, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2025
  • For example, the stock photo site Shutterstock has a partnership to provide training data for OpenAI.
    — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023

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