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

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

But at that rate," said Cyril, "we should never be permitted to write except about moral action; if the morally right is the same for the poet as the pictorially right for the painter.

From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Lee, Vernon