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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.


Example Sentences

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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

One of the less heralded examples is “The Eight Mountains,” Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s pictorially stunning adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 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

In St. Petersburg the common signs over and beside the doors of the shops are pictorially illustrated, indicating the business within, these devices taking the place of lettered signs, which the common people could not read.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray