How to Use photographic in a Sentence

photographic

adjective
  • And the scene where the guy that used to own the photographic studio comes back in a terrible state.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Indeed, a photographic wall is aimed at the things such a tool will do wrong.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Many of Penn’s most famous photographic works were shown but only one of the paintings—in a glass case in the last room of the show.
    — Lesley M. M. Blume, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Residents wishing to use the pools must have a photographic ID and pay the day rate of $5.
    — Jeff Forward, Houston Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2020
  • To be clear, this was a photographic corona; no one saw it with their own eyes.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The counter where you order food is nondescript, but the rest of the room gains a nice vibe from large photographic art works on the walls.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 27 June 2018
  • Live clips are spliced with black-and-white clips of ’50s-era photographic shoots and runways.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 July 2024
  • This was a year and a half before the iPhone, and photographic evidence was scarce.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • The Duke, wearing a suit and tie, then posed with the club in the palace grounds, and photographic proof was duly dispatched to Tanna.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Here’s a photographic look at some of the highlights of McCarthy’s time on Capitol Hill.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • My photographic journey started in Brazil in the local press in the 1980s.
    — Emilie Richardson, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Next to the vials are photographic prints of the virus at work on kidney cells and T cells as well as a video installation.
    — S.h. | New York, The Economist, 15 July 2019
  • Prior to Northridge, the data were recorded on photographic film chips by sensors out in the field.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But for right now, Oditt trains his focus on the photographic survey.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • One of the two robbery victims later picked Lester out of a photographic line up.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 2 July 2019
  • Two weeks later, the teller was shown a photographic lineup by the FBI.
    — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • The photo went viral, but there were others in the photographic arms race.
    — Josh Wingrove, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
  • Is there photographic or video evidence of the Phoenix Lights?
    — The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • And the thrill of this hunt results only in the photographic capture of bucks, does and fawns, which Goyet posts on Instagram at @sgbgood.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Five stained cloth draperies are slung from rods attached to the ceiling of the gallery, and seven or so frames present faint photographic images of weedy fields.
    — Charles Desmarais, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2018
  • And the collection holds more than just photographic negatives of the stars.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Among them is a small blue photographic print from an exhibition held at the Robert Miller Gallery on 57th Street.
    — ELLE Decor, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Simond has also said that the rayon vert—the green ray—of the film’s title serves as an apt symbol of her photographic process.
    — Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2020
  • At the same time, there’s photographic evidence that the Ukrainians have shot down at least one of Russia’s killer drones.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • On the downside, both off-the-shelf and DIY pinhole cameras use film or photographic paper.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The figures’ bodies are hand-drawn, but their heads are all photographic images of Lee’s face.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 7 July 2018
  • The families sat behind him at the hearing and held up photographic portraits of some of the 346 people killed in those tragedies.
    — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • For 2½ years, Boix stole the photographic evidence of their crimes.
    — Sara J. Brenneis, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Duchess of Cambridge arrived along with the Duke to see two of the winning photographic portraits installed in London.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This photographic breakthrough could present new challenges and opportunities for observations of the corona during future partial eclipses.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025

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