moving pictures
Example Sentences
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To mention the most popular moan, the silver screen has been losing its monopoly on displaying moving pictures since the arrival of TV in the 1940s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Dustin Nguyen plays Son Pham, a Vietnamese American gangster, civilized, but not in the slimy way gangsters are sometimes civilized in the moving pictures, with Kiều Chinh as his steely mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
They even hesitantly embraced the advent of new technology like the telephone and moving pictures.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024
"In the early days of film, most people had never seen moving pictures," said David Looser, chairman of the Harwich Electric Palace Trust.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2022
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
