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
Under the spell of ancient tombstones and tablets, but also the “automatic writing” of the surrealists, Twombly took up the idea that the written word, legible or otherwise, could be thought of pictorially.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023
There’s a lot to read, pictorially speaking, in Moore’s show, ably selected by curator Taylor Renee Aldridge.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 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
A faint yet, pictorially, a vivid memory of that strained hour of varying emotions swept across him now in a moment's space, as he gazed at the page before him.
From Beggars on Horseback by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
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