How to Use thematic in a Sentence

thematic

adjective
  • But that’s just one of the many thematic uses that movies have found for clones over the decades.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • More than 100 thematic ETFs have closed this year, across a broad range of themes.
    — Tanzeel Akhtar, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
  • The set of three includes three thematic shapes: a pumpkin, a bat, and a ghost.
    — Toni Sutton, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • But that’s a kind of prologue and a road map for the film and lays out all the thematic stuff that’s going to play out in the rest of the movie.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
  • This is an episode that owes more than a small stylistic and thematic debt to Lost.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
  • See our full Top 100 list here and read our thematic guides here.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2020
  • As a time capsule of the moment, both the film’s thematic concerns and its look are dead-on.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The wider thematic focus of the UN Climate meeting is on the role of the oceans and cryosphere in climate change.
    — Wired, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Despite this thematic weight, though, the films are light on their feet.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
  • But the ads fell flat, did little to dent Biden's lead in the polls and lacked a thematic approach to build a case against Biden.
    — Brian Slodysko, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The FaceTiming is thematic to the movie, which is about two friends who live far apart.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The show plays it pretty straight, but the thematic gray area remains.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • As long as the songs are a sonic and thematic match for the realm of Purple Rain, who cares whether a tune appeared in the film?
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 June 2024
  • The ending may seem forced, even comic, but is very much to thematic point.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • An episode of Mad Men tends to have this lovely thematic unity to it.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The record’s title suits this oddest of years, but there’s not much thematic unity on the record.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2020
  • If there are thematic areas the tool has not yet mastered, Moxie refers the child to an adult.
    — Lindsey Tramuta, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2021
  • But yeah, there were ideas on what the thematic narrative that was going to run through the four nights that went on for a month.
    — Josh Cornfield, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Upon sharing the title track, Khan referred to it as the thematic core of the album.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The thematic here—as in so many films after—is justice.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 23 May 2022
  • The best of these thematic spaces is the one dedicated to shape and the human form.
    — Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
  • As a thematic answer: Maybe love is stronger than death.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Maceo Plex specifically has a brand called Mutants, which made for the perfect thematic tie-in and the name of the event.
    — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Or, for that matter, the scope and thematic muscle of Black Panther.
    — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
  • But the video is still a part of rap lore that Metro and Future decided to use as a thematic framework for their project.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This left time for the band to get existential about the EP’s thematic concerns.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Paired with a simple black top, leather boots, and a matching green clutch bag, the look was thematic without being cheesy or too on-the-nose.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2024
  • All told, Mueller and Schiff are similar figures, who have filled the same thematic space.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 29 Jan. 2020
  • But there was also a thematic reason to have the Gemstones face their final challenge on their own.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 May 2025
  • Here are eight thematic titles to check out as a family.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 8 May 2025

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