How to Use naturalistic in a Sentence

naturalistic

adjective
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  • The zoo strives to create naturalistic settings for the animals.
  • The Bronx Zoo is one of the largest zoos in the U.S. by area; it's comprised of 265 acres of park lands and naturalistic habitats.
    — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Against the Black Hills, the Harley-as-horse metaphor feels naturalistic.
    — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The women are all brown-skinned, but most of the other hues are far from naturalistic.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But your next step might be something more blob-like and naturalistic, which seems to be where the trend is heading.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But just because the chat is naturalistic doesn’t mean the effect isn’t just a little … strange.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2021
  • The shaded paths lead down to a series of naturalistic ponds.
    — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The main point though is that all the acrobatic machinery for Sonic just hangs in the air and feels out of place against the naturalistic art style.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • The game may look more naturalistic with Vivid mode off, but the unnatural lights befit the game’s mood.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • That’s a more naturalistic style of storytelling and more of a heightened style.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Still, the puzzle element of the game is not quite as naturalistic as the drama itself.
    — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The movie is, in effect, a naturalistic horror story of a practical crime and a moral crime.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The all-wood island and hardwood floor complement the tiles' naturalistic tints and shades.
    — Marisa Donnelly, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Select your plants, and place your stumps in an artful yet naturalistic fashion, slightly buried in the ground.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Called Greystoke Cottage, a designation signified on a plaque over the front door, the house sits on more than half an acre of naturalistic grounds.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Thanks to the gentle, unforced way Mills directs his script, and Phoenix’s naturalistic acting, the movie never has the feel of Hollywood chintz.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Greif’s staging, which grows more naturalistic as the pair careens off the rails, attempts its own kind of seduction.
    — Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Most of the red-hued, naturalistic drawings are more than 2.5 feet tall; some are actually life-size.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020
  • As a control, all the mice were also given a naturalistic task that involved digging through a heap of bedding to find a reward.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
  • But against them come naturalistic set-pieces and lonesome doorframes that slide on via turntables.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • The suiting was more naturalistic and hung on the body in a way that wasn’t as constricting as your common American Brooks Brothers cut.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • The concept is claimed to have been inspired by the original Avatar blockbuster film, which was set in a naturalistic other-world paradise with no cars.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 13 Dec. 2022
  • New ocean bungalows have a naturalistic design and fab lanai with a hanging egg chair swing.
    — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 May 2022
  • In this way tiles depict the contours of a face, follow the curving strands of hair, and bring a naturalistic drape to a bedsheet held up by a nurse behind a reclining patient.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Dhont believes these to be the keys to achieving performances that feel naturalistic.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The first is that the novel is uneven, a clash of naturalistic writing and allegory.
    — Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Army of the Dead feels a lot like Dawn of the Dead in many ways, most importantly the more naturalistic way the film is shot and stylized, and in its irreverent sense of humor and characters.
    — Mark Hughes, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • The main problem with The Outsider, which seems to feel much more comfortable as a moodily naturalistic crime drama than as a parser of things that go bump in the night, is that the balance is off.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Ultimately, the more naturalistic second half — which has a realistic set with chairs and tables, delivered in a clunky black-out transition by intrusive stagehands — gets as sharp and loud as the pell-mell sounds-and-lights first half.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Her films are naturalistic portraits of everyday people, often at the edges of society: teenagers on the lam in America, a rebellious 15-year-old struggling to break free of her circumstances in lower-class London.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2024

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