How to Use visual aid in a Sentence

visual aid

noun
  • As students learn songs by heart, the visual aid can be turned off.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Pierce used the bas-relief project as a visual aid for preaching.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Echo Dot with Clock keeps all of this, but adds in a visual aid.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Or tore out pages and added them to a list as a visual aid for Santa Claus.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 15 Dec. 2017
  • His visual aids seemed tailor-made for a president whose love of maps and charts is well known.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
  • Captain Marvel’s strength is in her story rather than the visual aids.
    — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2019
  • It was intended to be used as a visual aid for a class presentation.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Almost everything but the bases had already been rebuilt as a visual aid for tourists.
    — Max Pearl, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Garrett Wilson even brings up a visual aid to back up his complement.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Check this site, which has excellent visual aids (and treatment supplies).
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
  • In this way, a visual aid, such as a flowchart, helps both the creator of the aid and those to whom the aid is presented.
    — William Jones, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Tillerson appeared with a visual aid, a map showing air traffic across Asia on one day.
    — Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
  • But somehow, his dominating stat sheet doesn't quite do it justice, so here are some visual aids.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2017
  • That’s a neat visual aid to tell you that an application can access voice and/or video data from your phone.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Someone on the committee objected at one point, but the visual aids were allowed to stay.
    — Aaron Blake, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
  • There are fidget toys and other games as well as visual aids to help provide a distraction and calm anxiety.
    — Anne M. Peterson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Fox also reports that there have been examples of the poncho placed around the school as visual aids to prepare all of the girls for the night-of.
    — Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 1 May 2018
  • Ahead, learn how to make your own pallet bed frame with her step-by-guide, and then watch the video tutorial for a visual aid before you get started.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Stealing signs is one of baseball’s oldest bits of gamesmanship and is only considered dirty if teams use visual aids of some sort.
    — Dan Gartland, PEOPLE.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The lifesaving steps are better ingrained in a child’s mind with the help of a lovable visual aid such as Molly, Hilton said.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The trunks allow teachers to have more resources to use, provide visual aids that really help students who aren’t clicking with the textbook.
    — Brooke Lamantia, ExpressNews.com, 22 July 2019
  • Polensek brought in visual aids to raise concern about what constitutes 200 grams of marijuana – about 7 ounces.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Netanyahu's speech Monday was delivered in English and relied on his trademark use of visual aids.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • Instead of just reading your textbook, try learning using podcasts, visual aids such as posters, presentations, and online blogs.
    — Amina Youssef-Shalala, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Apprentices or medical students could also review footage from operations and use that to provide a more first-hand visual aid for their training.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
  • It was intended as a visual aid for journalists like me accompanying the team of scientists measuring the pace at which water flows off this glacier.
    — NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Another technique that helps Carter is the curriculum visual aids used by Goldfish instructors.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2018
  • Pulling in a visual aid as evidence, London shared a piece of paper containing a list of the three actresses vying for the role in 2005.
    — Justine Browning, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • But on Twitter, in direct messages, Calvin Barnes talked about his fantasies of daddy-daughter, uncle-niece and provided visual aids.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Ideally, reserve them for discussions that require visual aids, like presentations and documents.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020

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