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

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

The far-renowned shield of Achilles was covered with so great a number of figures pictorially disposed, that it resembled modern heraldry still less than those above alluded to.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony