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Example sentences for "depicting"

Lexicographically close words:
depends; depenses; dephlogisticated; depict; depicted; depiction; depicts; depilation; depilatory; depind
  1. One of the neatest of these, depicting Marcus Manlius thrown into the Tiber, is here shown.

  2. The last dated book which he printed, the Mirrour of Our Lady of 1530, contains several fine illustrations; that on the reverse of the title-page depicting a woman of some religious order writing a book, has at the bottom the letters E.

  3. Of Frank Reynolds, with gently satirical pen and pencil depicting the superficial humours of modern life, it might be said that his drawings, too, are more humanly natural than real flesh and blood.

  4. Other drawings in the same series, depicting other examples of the strange freaks of humanity by whom the British public delights to be entertained, afford good examples of the innate humour of Frank Reynolds' art.

  5. This was followed by Life in the Hills of Kentucky (1889), depicting actual conditions.

  6. This was a tale of love and adventure, depicting the protest against the toll-gate system in Kentucky years ago, with a brief inclusion of the more recent tobacco troubles.

  7. Though clever in depicting a melee or a skirmish of dragoons, he remained second to Philip Wouvermans in accuracy of drawing, and inferior to Van der Meulen in the production of landscapes.

  8. The slaughter was too terrible to need depicting in darker colors; but in time it was declared that Menendez hung many, with an insulting label: “I do not this to Frenchmen, but to Heretics.

  9. One of the most remarkable series of pictures depicting the Great Mother is found sculptured in low relief upon a number of stone slabs from Manabi in Central America,[311] one of which I reproduce here (Fig.

  10. She so wished that she was capable of depicting to herself what the rest would be.

  11. She would have shortened and beguiled her return journey by depicting to herself Lady Maria's pleasure and relief.

  12. Robert Moore, sometime Canon of Canterbury; it is an elaborate piece of work depicting Becket's martyrdom and scenes in his life.

  13. Thus it came about that on the fifth morning, Macgregor received a postcard depicting a light-house on a rocky coast and bearing a few written words, also an oddly shaped parcel.

  14. On the right of the choir is an elaborate Roman doorway, and preserved in the Chapter Room are five paintings depicting the "Chaste Susanne.

  15. Pugin could not resist depicting many of these delightful old houses of Lisieux in his book on Normandy, though, unlike Ruskin, he had no eye for its cathedral; most of us will not have.

  16. Her writings, depicting the frontier life, found their way into many eastern papers, and today constitute some of the best material on that era of State history.

  17. A communal drama depicting the history of North Dakota, written by students for presentation at the opening of the Bankside Theater.

  18. It is necessary to dwell upon such facts as the above to show how fully equipped is the author of Aylwin for understanding and depicting the great poet-painter, to whose memory he addressed the sonnet at the head of this note.

  19. One of these, depicting the situation at the time of the surrender, has been printed.

  20. There is a total of three photographs depicting purportedly pictures in Minsk, Russia.

  21. But you do recognize these pictures as depicting your brother?

  22. Larwood mentioned this sign as depicting John Wilkes, John Horne Tooke, and Sir John Glynn.

  23. Eagle and Lamb formerly had a pictorial board depicting an eagle preying on a lamb.

  24. The whole northerly side of the choir opens out into a chapel whose northern and eastern ends are lighted by three large embrasures filled with excellent Renaissance glazing, depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin.

  25. Beginning at the lower left-hand corner and reading to the right, are a series of scenes depicting the creation of the world, Garden of Eden, etc.

  26. Catherine, each displaying elaborately gruesome episodes depicting the martyrdom of the heroine.

  27. The second in the chapel named after St. Romain, depicting scenes from his life, is one of the few in the church which is not either restored or renewed.

  28. Or one may turn to “a picture by the French artist, Morlon, depicting a lifeboat hastening in a heavy storm to the relief of a steamer that is being wrecked.

  29. An artist who would come to Ceylon and devote himself to depicting "the fishers of Ceylon's isle" (how well that sounds!

  30. With the aid of the indispensable fan the girls succeed in depicting many different emotions, and all with exquisite grace.

  31. The way in which Saint-Saens has succeeded in musically depicting the above story is intensely original and masterly.

  32. His music is not theatrical in the ordinary acceptation of the term but intensely dramatic, inasmuch as it aims at depicting the innermost details of the action, and describes in searching accents the varied emotions of the leading characters.

  33. Disraeli showed himself particularly gracious, and warmly congratulated the artist, whose pencil had lately been employed in satirising him in a disparaging fashion, depicting him as a nice young man for a small party, i.

  34. Perhaps; but Punch does not aspire to reflect the savagery we call civilisation by painting a Hogarthian "Progress," nor to preach virtue by depicting vice.

  35. The Arab, with the curiosity of all men who do not read books, sought information as to life in big cities, and Royson amused himself by depicting the marvels of London.

  36. The "Swat the Fly" movement, which declared a relentless war against the common house-fly, was powerfully assisted by the exhibition of films depicting the fly at work in the dissemination of disease.

  37. He has produced four films depicting the honey bee.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depicting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.