schematic
Example Sentences
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If films about catastrophe often take a schematic, meet-the-victims approach to their opening scenes, Ms. Littman renders hers with persuasive vibrancy, too full of life to have room for heavy-handed portent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The mournful irony underlying the somewhat schematic plot is that they never can quite find themselves in sync, despite the bonds between them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Rams coach Sean McVay and San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan know each other — and each other’s schematic and play-calling tendencies — better than perhaps any two coaches in the NFL.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2025
Setting down the xenomorphs on Earth is a stunning, scary idea that Hawley builds from a schematic illustrated with tension, tragedy, fascination, and grim familiarity with our species’ greatest flaws: hubris and greed.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025
The little professor stands at the chalkboard drawing a wiring schematic for a simple Morse-code practice circuit.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
