DEPICTED in a Sentence

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1. Horror was depicted on every countenance.
2. The artist had depicted her lying naked on a bed.
3. The artist depicted them strolling through a park.
4. The artist depicted him strolling through a garden.
5. His misery was depicted in sinister lines on his countenance.

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depict
 v.  represent in a picture or sculpture; portray in words; describe
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Sheer nervousness will prevent you from uttering a word in his presence, so great are the pride and superiority depicted on his countenance.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on Prince Vasili's face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII
3  Anna Mikhaylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted on her face.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II
4  A very pretty curly-headed boy with a look of the Christ in the Sistine Madonna was depicted playing at stick and ball.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVI
5  He had dreamed that he and Uncle Pierre, wearing helmets such as were depicted in his Plutarch, were leading a huge army.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
6  His misery was depicted in sinister lines on his countenance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
7  The artist who could have depicted the expression of these two countenances would certainly have made of them a beautiful picture.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 91. Mother and Son.
8  Deep grief was depicted on Morrel's features; he seized Monte Cristo's hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal.
9  Busoni turned around, and, perceiving the excitement depicted on the magistrate's face, the savage lustre of his eyes, he understood that the revelation had been made at the assizes; but beyond this he was ignorant.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.
10  Horror was depicted on every countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
12  It was dry, and he flung himself down upon the barrow, his face towards the moon, which depicted a small image of herself in each of his eyes.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
13  Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
14  The thought of arguing with a man as grief crazed as the one Mammy depicted made her go cold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
15  Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The artist had depicted her lying naked on a bed.
2  The artist depicted him strolling through a garden.
3  The artist depicted them strolling through a park.
4  In the film she's depicted as a very cold and calculating character.
5  A sphinx is a mythological creature that is depicted as a recumbent feline with a human head.
6  The miserable story, especially the distant forces of law, is all depicted in visceral detail.
7  Although we still depict nostalgic snow scenes on Christmas cards, winters are now very much warmer.
8  He was the first artist to depict the Highland landscape without sentimentality.
9  The rock drawings depict a variety of stylized human, bird and mythological figures and patterns.
10  Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
11  Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
12  Here, we can see how the author to depict Beatle John Lennon as a drug-crazed neurotic.
13  Some will use Earth Day to depict America as an energy wastrel and despoiler of the earth.
14  He is not queasy about depicting mass violence, in some circumstances, as a legitimate instrument of social transformation.
15  The graphics depicting troop movements are simple-minded and drawn on forgettable backgrounds.