moving picture

Example Sentences

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If we run our eyes up and down the contact sheets from the shoot, our minds can construct a moving picture of Björk as artist and muse.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

There is a strong resemblance between the promises of resurrection via VR and the rhetoric that heralded the invention of other once-new technologies like the moving picture.

From Slate • May 27, 2020

How many pupils each school can accommodate will be a daily moving picture as staff fall ill.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2020

At this point in his career, he apparently feels he has to push the boundaries of everything the moving picture format can do and be.

From The Verge • Oct. 8, 2019

The creature she had seen in the Englishman’s house wasn’t a moving picture after all.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer