moving picture

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How to use moving picture in a sentence

  • “A moving picture is by its nature a collaboration, and any collaboration is compromise,” he told The Paris Review in 1956.

  • "She's a moving picture actress or something, I'm sure of it," Grace confided in Betty's unsympathetic ear.

  • Mr. Akeley had an elaborate moving picture machine and we planned to get some excellent pictures of charging animals.

    In Africa | John T. McCutcheon
  • Cameras clicked and the moving picture machine worked busily as the balloon was secured to earth again.

    In Africa | John T. McCutcheon
  • "Shoulder Arms" was pretty good, perhaps, but all this clamour over a moving-picture actor!

    My Wonderful Visit | Charlie Chaplin
  • I tell you, Kate, there's a moving picture theatre down there at Fifty-ninth Street that keeps going till after one.

    The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun

British Dictionary definitions for moving picture

moving picture

noun
  1. another name for motion picture

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