Example Sentences

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Here the banners are rendered with the utmost economy, pared down to billowing blocks of color that seem to float above the road below, dwarfing the pointillist pedestrians who stroll beneath them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Zoom out and these pointillist patterns are colorful doubles of the black-and-white photographs of baobab trees mounted in the foreground.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

An egg-shaped Fendi coat is composed of thousands of tiny brightly colored mink mosaic tiles, like a pointillist painting; another, strafed by overlapping shades made of layers of scrunched-up tulle that only look like fur.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

This episode vividly demonstrates the "Better Call Saul" writers and director's aptitude for creating pointillist portraits of Kim and whoever Jimmy is at any moment.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2022

An entire stretch of the alleyway is coated in chewed pieces of gum, a sticky, pointillist rainbow across the bricks.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day