imagery
noun
im·ag·ery
| \ ˈi-mij-rē
, -mi-jÉ™-\
, -mi-jÉ™-\
plural imageries
Definition of imagery
Examples of imagery in a Sentence
The book contains a great deal of sexual imagery.
The movie was full of biblical imagery.
Recent Examples on the Web
Elsewhere the song layers on some pat high-school imagery, enough that anyone who might want to discount the allegory could reasonably do so. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ courts — gasp! — adults with grown-up emotional complexity," 23 Aug. 2019 This invokes painful imagery of slave catchers and runaway enslaved Africans. — Breanna Edwards, Essence, "Texas Police Blasted After Mounted Officers Pictured Leading Black Man By Leash," 6 Aug. 2019 The choreography, though still rooted in tap and riffing on some iconic Broadway musical imagery, feels more like the work of Savion Glover than Gower Champion. — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, "Review: ’42nd Street’s new digs at the Ordway are fresh, funky, flashy," 26 July 2019 Now, Tyler’s releasing some even more cryptic imagery that builds on this newfound aesthetic. — Vogue, "Tyler, the Creator (and His Plastic Clones) Can’t Stop Wearing Suits," 23 May 2019 All this devil adoration lends Sabrina nicely to some pretty harrowing imagery—from freaky demons to possessed faces—but that isn't the most unnerving part of the show. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Is Dark and Scary, But Not in the Way You Think," 26 Oct. 2018 In 2014, hackers from China breached the federal weather network at NOAA and disrupted the flow of some satellite imagery and data products. — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, "Rogue Chinese message broadcast over intercom at National Weather Service center," 9 Aug. 2018 Where this ad truly starts punching emotional buttons is down the home stretch starting just after some very dark imagery used to evoke the uprising in 2015 in Baltimore. — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, "Rating the TV ads for governor: Hogan has a winner, Baker's a loser with his Baltimore pitch," 7 June 2018 Inoue achieves some wonderful wide-screen imagery here, finding various ways to frame the boat against seascapes as well as numerous compositions of the men onboard. — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, "Film / Foreign Discover the work of noted Japanese genre director Umetsugu Inoue," 30 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'imagery.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for imagery
imagery
noun
English Language Learners Definition of imagery
technical
: pictures or photographs
: language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind
: pictures of people or things in a work of art
See the full definition for imagery in the English Language Learners Dictionary
imagery
noun
im·ag·ery
| \ ˈi-mij-rē
, -mi-jÉ™-\
, -mi-jÉ™-\
Kids Definition of imagery
: pictures or photographs of something
satellite imagery
imagery
noun
im·ag·ery
| \ ˈim-ij-(ə-)rē
\
\
plural imageries
Medical Definition of imagery
: mental images
eidetic imagery
especially
: the products of imagination
psychotic imagery
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