Example Sentences

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Artists have been depicting the poor and marginal for centuries, sometimes as colorful figures inserted into social scenes for the amusement of well-to-do patrons and collectors.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2019

The camera cut to a quick shot of him drawing some kind of stick figure during the 45-min prep period, and I can only guess what kind of scene it might have been depicting:

From The Verge • Jun. 7, 2016

Black artists have been depicting their own lives with gorgeous tenderness, intimacy and invention for centuries.

From Washington Post

That man may have been depicting the ocean on his blank square, but that didn’t mean it would affect the real ocean.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

But, mind you, it's the appreciation of the Regular Guy who I have been depicting which has made this possible, and you got to hand as much credit to him as to the authors themselves.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair