pictorially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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In high school history classes this painting, is often used as a way of pictorially representing "manifest destiny," since it shows American settlers moving west.
From Salon • May 30, 2023
That older study suggested that gestures particularly promote the memory of words if they represent the meaning of the word pictorially.
From Scientific American • Nov. 12, 2021
Degas — perhaps even more convincingly than his friend Édouard Manet — met the challenge of how to express such beauty pictorially.
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019
“Mortal Engines” is such a visual marvel, such a dazzling, pictorially involving imagining of the future, it’s a shame it’s not completely worth seeing.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2018
It is all a matter of education, and the newspaper reporter of the future will not be considered complete unless he is able to express himself, to some extent, pictorially as well as verbally.
From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Blackburn, Henry
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