How to Use pictograph in a Sentence

pictograph

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  • Big Bend National Park has it all — vast amounts of open space, rivers, canyons, pictographs, and hot springs.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • For an overnight trip, take the 22-mile Painted Cave trail, which features a pictograph panel.
    — Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2022
  • These new additions bring the total count of available pictographs to 3,664.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Here are steep-sided canyons etched with 4,000-year-old pictographs painted in blood and ochre by Finland’s Stone Age settlers.
    — Mike MacEacheran, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2017
  • The mound also has ancient petroglyphs and pictographs scrawled into its tan rock base.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Aside from looking for pictographs, visitors here can geocache, mountain bike, hike, and more.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
  • Occasionally, two or three of Baras’ roughly hewn pictographs on burlap, wood and canvas appear to be shouting across the gallery.
    — David Pagel, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • These hunter-gatherers painted pictographs in the rock shelters of the Lower Pecos River Country, and today, more than 200 sites still have these paintings.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2023
  • These pictographs, like the smiley-face caricature, are self-portraits too.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • As the 4,000-year-old pictographs still visible along its steep canyon walls attest, it is saturated in history.
    — Stephen Harrigan, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The collection’s core design features a cave art-like pictograph of a long-necked water bird facing the spirit of a roaring panther with a fish over the source spring of the San Antonio River.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Before me were crude drawings, pictographs painted on the walls of the shallow cave by ancient civilizations that occupied this place thousands of years ago.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Roche-a-Cri has ancient pictographs from the ancestors of the local Ho-Chunk, who carved arrows, birds, figures, canoes and more into the rock, and used it to track astronomical events and local life.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 18 July 2019
  • In California, there are century-old pictographs drawn by the Yokuts that appear to show a family of giant creatures with long, shaggy hair.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The mural's diamonds, pinwheels, cubes and pictographs suggest a freestyle Native American rug, its trails of dripping ink like loose, dangling threads.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Panels of petroglyphs and pictographs reveal the canyon’s millennia-old appeal.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 11 June 2017
  • In the 1970s Kohlmeyer developed a style of multihued pictographs, usually organized on a grid.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But if surviving a plane crash isn’t motivation enough, there are other compelling reasons to check out that plastic pictograph.
    — Tyler Moss, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2017
  • Dialogue takes place through pictographs symbolizing concepts like home and ideas.
    — Doug Cornelius, WIRED, 30 July 2009
  • Looking back, food has always played a role in art: Stone Age cave painters used vegetable juice and animal fats as binding ingredients in their paints, and the Egyptians carved pictographs of crops and bread on hieroglyphic tablets.
    — Sharon Butler, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The emoji really isn’t a modern concept, simply a pictograph rendered in a digital form.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Knowing that the Huichol associated black and red with the underworld, Boyd believed this pictograph represented the watery underworld in the West, from which the first humans emerged.
    — Will Hunt, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
  • Additionally, Medicine Rock, a sacred spot with ancient pictographs used for rituals and healing, is also located at the base of Chokla.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • They were then shown an intentionally ambiguous image—in this case, a Chinese pictograph.
    — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 11 June 2018
  • The new emoji include useful pictographs such as a ninja, disguised face, polar bear, bubble tea, pickup truck, toothbrush, military helmet, two people hugging, and pinched fingers (also known as the Italian hand gesture).
    — cleveland, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Humans have hunted, farmed and lived in Glen Canyon for millennia, building multistory cliff dwellings, crafting intricate petroglyph and pictograph panels, and leaving the remains of irrigation systems.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Hämäläinen and other historians use Lakota winter counts, pictographs drawn annually onto buffalo hides (and sometimes paper), to reconstruct the politics of the Native interior.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Haring made uninflected linear drawings almost exclusively glyphs and pictographs, like Paleolithic cave art with an agitated urban edge.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023

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