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
Cunningham turned away from the stately, official bombast of the nationally important commemorative site and — pictorially, at least — got her feet wet instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
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
I 'm not sure Vaterchen followed me completely, nor understood the anecdotes I introduced about Edmund Bean and Lord Byron; but I now addressed myself pictorially to Tintefleck,—pictorially, I say, for words were hopeless.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
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