pictorially

American  

[pik-tawr-ee-uh-lee] / pɪkˈtɔr i ə li /

adverb

1. in a pictorial way; in a way that uses or resembles a picture or pictures.

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Example Sentences

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

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

“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

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 Lever, Charles James