Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

After the digital-TV switchover, some viewers noticed blockiness in their picture.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2021

His very stubbornness and strangeness — the polytonality, the blockiness of his playing, the oppositional push-and-pull between his piano and Paul Desmond’s alto saxophone — makes the Brubeck quartet’s best work still sound original.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2012

Today we can wallow in the film's sleek retro-kitsch; even the opening logo has acquired the classic blockiness of a '56 DeSoto.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the stage had, like all such things, sub-stages; and there must be corresponding breaks, if only mechanical ones, in the narrative, to avoid the distasteful "blockiness" resulting from their absence.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George