IMAGERY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for IMAGERY, such as:

1. The imagery of the psalms of prophecy soothed his barren pride.
2. Essentially, imagery is any series of words that create a picture, or sensory experience in your head.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMAGERY
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imagery
 n.  ability to form mental images of things or events; figurative writing
Classic Sentence:
1  The imagery of the psalms of prophecy soothed his barren pride.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  A faded world of fervent love and virginal responses seemed to be evoked for his soul by the reading of its pages in which the imagery of the canticles was interwoven with the communicant's prayers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  Stephen's mind halted by instinct, checked by the strange tone and the imagery and by the priest's face which seemed like an unlit lamp or a reflector hung in a false focus.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  Its mystic imagery are so many talismans and gems inscribed with unknown hieroglyphics; she folds them in her bosom, and expects to read them when she passes beyond the veil.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence:
1  Essentially, imagery is any series of words that create a picture, or sensory experience in your head.
2  The documents also chronicle GCHQ's sustained struggle to keep the large store of sexually explicit imagery collected by Optic Nerve away from the eyes of its staff.