moving picture

Example Sentences

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By stark contrast, no one these days runs screaming from a movie theater to escape certain ruin from the moving picture of an onrushing choo-choo.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2022

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

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

An economy, after all, is not a snapshot frozen in time, but a moving picture.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019

You can see the Pennines all around the city of Stockport, green and bare with fast-moving stripes of cloud and sunlight gliding overhead like a Technicolor moving picture.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein