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
He was among the first openly gay filmmakers and a pioneer in using soundtracks as counterpoints to moving pictures.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2023
Although you could look at each image separately, it is often more useful to view them sequentially, like a flipbook in which drawings turn into moving pictures.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023
Dad compromised by taking moving pictures of each of us, first with colored fingers practicing on the paper diagrams and then actually working on the typewriter.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
