found

In a sentence

Six example sentences with found, each labelled with its topic.

• The sculptor works entirely in found materials, welding bicycle chains and driftwood into figures three meters tall.

  Art

• The documentary is built from found footage, home movies recovered from a flooded basement and cleaned frame by frame.

  Movies

• Museum labels mark the coin as a found object, dug up by a farmer who was only clearing a ditch.

  History

• The composer builds whole pieces from found sounds, recording dripping taps and train doors and arranging them into rhythm.

  Music

• Her found poems are cut from old seed catalogs, with the lines rearranged but not a single word added.

  Literature

• The gallery show consists entirely of found photographs, snapshots bought by the box at flea markets and printed large.

  Photography

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains found. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• interpretation
• exclude
• dominating
• dimension
• contributing
• resolving
• documented
• exhibit
• allocation
• conception
• explicit
• emergence