How to Use Pixels in a Sentence

Stand very close to Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece "La Grande Jatte" and you'll see nothing but a confusion of small points of color. Get close enough to the images on your computer screen and you'll see the same thing. But the small, square points of color that make up the images on your computer screen are pixels, not oil paint. The word "pixels" is a plural noun that dates to 1969 and derives in part from an informal word for pictures: "pix." "Pixels" is not difficult to use properly in a sentence.

Instructions

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     Use the word "pixels" with "the" when the subject of your sentence is pixels. For example, "The pixels that make up a computer screen are either red, blue or green."

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     Use the word "pixels" with "of" when your sentence describes a characteristic or quality of pixels. For example, "The small size of pixels makes them almost invisible to the naked eye."

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     Use the word "pixels" with "the" as the object of a verb when your sentence describes something that is done to pixels. For example, "I magnified the pixels with a strong magnifying glass."