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    Use "picture" in a sentence

    picture example sentences

    picture


    pictured


    pictures


    picturing


    1. "Wow," Jorma was impressed with this revelation, though he found it hard to picture


    2. You probably can see the picture


    3. I barely remember Earth and when I try to picture it in my mind today I notice the fields covered with ribbonleaves and archwoods shading the houses


    4. I say the word 'palm tree' today but my mind brings up the picture of a nullbreak hangleaf


    5. Her side of the headboard was picked over, the light stuff was gone, a picture of a home in the inner canals remained, a feathered set of hair rings was gone


    6. She looked like she couldn't picture it at all


    7. All of those parts of the picture are affected by aging


    8. Underling say he needed this report? Henry could picture it now


    9. "I'm an American, far removed, but I can picture four tons of aluminum


    10. With toddlers, suggest that parents show your grandchild a recent picture of you as you talk over the phone

    11. From her picture, not a woman men refuse


    12. John looks at the picture


    13. "A pity," doostEr said, remembering the picture


    14. I saw a picture of the boat but that was long after the job I did for him


    15. He'd found her picture in the eye, she was not the type to excite Estwig so there was no use boring him with it


    16. Surrounded by Khmer lettering was a small but intricate picture of an event


    17. He stops and takes a picture of the clutter


    18. Awad’s picture is skewed and yellowed


    19. television monitor that shows the courtroom, John situated in the middle of the picture


    20. Ajarn's tattoo had taken he himself out of the picture and replaced him with someone else

    21. Why couldn't it be this guy? But there was a mark on the forehead of the guy in the picture, a crescent shape


    22. "There is a picture of a Chinese man on the wall


    23. She was a Buddhist and always had a picture of the laughing Buddha on their bedroom wall


    24. But no-one knew about that old tattered picture of the laughing Buddha on their bedroom wall


    25. ’ He said, suggesting that he has had a similar mental picture


    26. There was a picture of a busty naked blond holding pom-poms at the back of his open locker and one of an AK-47 on the inside of the door


    27. It's about three months since I first noticed a radical change in Persephone's behaviour: She is always shouting and laughing at top voice, she is trying to be clever and expert in all subjects, she is constantly asking for favours: “Type these poems for me” … “Tell your mother to sew this skirt of mine” … “Will you paint this picture for me?” … “Go to that public service and ask this or that” and so on


    28. I could see smiling faces, maybe a radio on in the background, a picture not so very different from the one at home


    29. He takes us through to his lounge – a room which stretches across the back of the house with a large picture window opening out onto the back …


    30. I gave up humming and instead tried to erase everything from my mind except a picture of my mother and father

    31. Just as I started to get the image into some sort of focus, at the critical moment when I started to remember details about the garden, their clothes and the house, right then the truck would bounce or shake over rough English roads, and these carefully assembled pieces of the picture puzzle would break and scatter


    32. I can picture Apollo holding it, experience it's texture, rubbing the strands between his thumb and index finger, "How could you do any of this? I was at the orphanage by then


    33. I search through the computer and eventually realize where the picture is coming from,


    34. many people who have qualms about including a picture in the profile


    35. Now, coming to the picture as such, if you are sending over a picture of yourself, for


    36. heavens sake, send over a decent picture


    37. And remember that it has to be a picture of you smiling


    38. "In the big picture, yes," he said, "But in day-to-day life, we haven't been very caught up in religion


    39. No picture formed in his mind of what that ship was like


    40. Meanwhile Alan was still transmitting, mostly a picture of the blond woman, not a bad image to have in your view, especially with the riverbank beyond

    41. Closing her eyes, fighting against the sharp disinfectant smell of the hospital, she forced herself to picture the interior of the bus … nauseating diesel fumes … a dingy, well used fabric covering the seats, chipped and faded paint on the accoutrements of metal … or was it plastic? She found it hard to tell sometimes … she heard again the chatter and laughter of the young people as they swayed along the aisle towards the door as the vehicle approached the bus stop


    42. Just because they on this earth cannot fathom eternity or the whole picture of the world’s history or even beyond the picture of world history does not mean that God cannot either


    43. I can still see the picture in my mind of sitting on the shore of that little pond, eating breakfast and looking up at those peaks watching over it from all sides


    44. and though I fear to see a pretty picture conjured


    45. to the picture of a man lain low two years ago


    46. Luray didn't understand enough of this to get a picture of what he was trying to say


    47. "I see, you'll have to draw a picture sometime, I couldn't see it in the dark


    48. What a pretty picture she made surrounded by the yellow fronds on the bright green ribbonleaves holding that purple flower


    49. "I suspect you won't find any reports of a meteor strike," he said, "because this picture was taken the following Garibivlast using the weather scope


    50. " It was a picture looking down from the mountain at the cloud tops over the New Midlands














































    1. The author pictured standing naked by a pond


    2. Theo pictured a round, pale friendly face at the other end


    3. For a moment Tig pictured all of them dying at these consoles and the junks flying on to warn Hardway


    4. He had pictured their mission as being basically simple


    5. She was exactly what he pictured a beautiful Elf woman to look like when he was a child reading fairy tales


    6. A thonga is a lower, wider, eight legged version of what Alan always pictured a 'cow' would be like


    7. He grinned to himself as he pictured her in some very explicit poses


    8. The first stage of the Plough Posture is pictured in figure 44, page 137


    9. The Shoulderstand is pictured in


    10. I pictured food in the pot and someone, perhaps the cook from his ship, wiping down the wooden table then shaking out the cloth through the window - not realising he was scattering seeds

    11. Except for a difference in appearance, she found they were warm and friendly and not at all as the Elders had pictured them


    12. He could no longer hold back his tears as he pictured his youngest son’s anger pitted against the Plague


    13. In the distant past some believe there was a civilization that was able to build flying machines of some kind, but this wasn't how they were generally pictured


    14. They were pictured as bigger than today's floaters with open decks and enormous sausage balloons and horizontal fans to drive them, peddled by most of the troops aboard


    15. He’d pictured the sun shining brightly, and a


    16. She wished that the poem was depicting an exaggeration of Alataria's true current state, yet from everything she had learned so far, she tended to believe that the poem pictured the actual, grim reality of the country


    17. Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in


    18. Unbidden, an image of Jeremy as he’d been found in death flittered through Sebastian’s mind, only now he pictured Aspen in that alley, drained and lifeless


    19. He always pictured a blue ‘U’ on his forehead shaped like a


    20. He then pictured to them a brilliant and dashing cruise, and asked them to join the service of the Confederate

    21. When I first started that’s exactly how I pictured it


    22. I pictured bared fangs


    23. In his mind, he pictured poor Billiken Bunkins in chains somewhere in Water-Down


    24. And that almost made him laugh aloud as he pictured himself stuck in a washroom pissing


    25. From Mike’s accounts, she had pictured a big, burly brute, but the cop turned out to be just a midget Indian, dressed like a circus clown in one of those multi-colored jackets the tourists were always buying


    26. Do you know that through one port alone – Houston, for example – as many as ten thousand shipping containers may arrive in a single day, not to mention other classes of cargo? There is such volume moving through US seaports that it can best be pictured as a wide, swift river of goods flowing into the country


    27. He pictured Truman and himself reunited


    28. Like most Americans, and in spite of his Polish ancestry, he had always pictured Poland as a land of flat steppes


    29. Colling had pictured the Vistula as having the sort of river-banks he was used to


    30. He smiled, as he again pictured her, scrambling away to safety, well ahead of any danger

    31. He pictured a ninety year-old guy hot-tubbing


    32. It reminds me of the man that I pictured in chapter 3, “The Parable of the Beginning,” who had been given the gift of a vision into the Genesis of all things


    33. I pictured it as a time similar to what had happened after the death of Alexander the Great, where able generals carved out their own spheres of influence


    34. “In my wildest dreams, I could’ve never pictured us as prosperous as we are right now


    35. ” I immediately pictured a religious group, but a science community? Yes atheists, even the scientific variety, are believers in something also, even though their “pitch” is diametrically opposed to religion and its belief system


    36. Science has pictured, as I’ve indicated in a previous chapter, the very beginning of life as one-celled things existing in a soup of finite hydrocarbon complexes from which they extracted their being


    37. “What? Me teach weird kids who dribble and can't think?” I'd always pictured myself in glamour roles


    38. Then I pictured myself returning to this sad life where all I did was work, where nobody loved me and apparently never would, and flinched at the prospect


    39. To look at him, one would expect him to be pictured on a Christmas card with his wife and two kids


    40. The slogan went ‘We’re here to help’ and a nice packaged drug would be pictured below

    41. I envisioned a small room inside my thought shield, and in that room I pictured a table and chairs for us all to sit at


    42. He pictured her as he had seen her at Fountain Plaza the


    43. “We can exclusively reveal that the gentlemen pictured here


    44. pictured here in front of the Don and


    45. Money Methods is pictured here with her


    46. As he pummeled her, I pictured her


    47. Sitting in class, I pictured


    48. pictured Jack Morrison’s face


    49. believe that there was some sort of super being, usually pictured as


    50. Jesse mentally pictured the three bedrooms available












































    1. This man came here honestly from YingolNeerie, in the flesh, on a big flaming starship like Jorma had seen in sci-fi movies all his life, and pictures in the news twenty one decades ago


    2. She knew all that from pictures


    3. Again, this was something she had seen only in pictures, it was a famous monument


    4. External objects, such as images of the deity, pictures or forms in nature


    5. There were dozens of them and he had to go thru pictures, but he found the right one


    6. Health related issues for over the age of 50, scientific discoveries, satellite and telescope pictures of recent discoveries are some of its highlights


    7. but the most trusted draughtsmen precisely because I did not want to see pictures or


    8. She’d have been about three when she died and I was a typical thirteen year old boy – not at all interested in babies, but I do remember some very clear pictures


    9. "It's the starship," he yelled, I saw pictures of it in a schoolbook taken back at the turn of the century


    10. He didn't have a book about it, but he had seen the pictures in news magazines twenty decades ago

    11. Clever user interface, you already always knew it, you explore the memories of knowing the facts, seeing the pictures, hearing the sounds


    12. Bolt pushes along the fence row, snapping pictures as he walks of rocks, an acacia tree covered with windblown plastic bags, his shoe, a pile of garbage rotting in the sun, a dead sheep rotting in the sun


    13. ” He slips through the hole in the fence, snapping pictures as he walks


    14. He took some pictures with his camera phone, then crossed the road and entered the narrow little premises that was the bane of Darklow's new debtor classes


    15. I’ve only seen pictures of him


    16. The Brazilians had actually met them and broadcast their pictures to Earth


    17. I watched mental pictures of them flash across the wall in front of me, images of gardens and soft sunlight


    18. He had showed them both maps and pictures of Brasil, most of them now nearly three hundred Earth years old


    19. They had to show him pictures before he would believe it, but the video of a theirops getting picked up in its jaws and chunked down in three bites was convincing


    20. Their birth had been celebrity fodder, first Brazilian children born on Kassidor, with pictures of Isabel holding each infant, each half a local decade apart

    21. All he has seen of that were telescopic photos of the one remaining pod and pictures that Ava had


    22. Just take the pictures during Noonsleep when everyone is in bed and an overgrown ruin would be pretty convincing


    23. Herndon had never seen the skies from the deep basins of this planet, but he had seen pictures


    24. Angie picked one up and started browsing through it while Kara looked with interest at the pictures hanging on the walls


    25. Lastriss streetcars appear to be made in the same factories as those in Zhlindu, she knew that from magazine pictures


    26. You showed me pictures, gave me books to read and I read them


    27. Could she have just kept up this caterwauling even then and claimed he just drew some blurry pictures? It looked like he had the choice of using force on her or giving this up and he had to make this decision while she was bellowing about how savage Alan said they were and how they would use force to take him back


    28. Alan wasn't any of the hundreds of humans he had pictures of by now


    29. He and several programs studied those pictures and were sure they weren't him


    30. They could take these pictures from the ship, and had

    31. Of course, there are always pictures of children,


    32. It shakes the house and rattles the pictures on the walls


    33. The whole house shook, several pictures fell off the walls, and she froze in mid step


    34. Make it interesting; add pictures if it helps you visualize


    35. A life fills her head full of pictures and sounds,


    36. Luray hadn't seen many pictures of Bordzvek, it was a ten year journey from the Zhlindu basin, and not an easy one


    37. And although his taxi had a very impressive array of icons, holy pictures, crucifixes and little religious plaques arranged around the windscreen, there was nothing to dispel my fear that at any moment we'd be sailing through the air, over the cliffs and down, down, down into the sea


    38. She knew that from magazine pictures, a city with two rings of glass and grown towers, miles around, sweltering in the jungle, with lemphs running in cages turning big slow fans that hung from the ceilings


    39. She sent text messages by the score and took pictures of everything and anything that moved, but, and much to her delight, every time that she checked the credit on her phone it was full


    40. pictures that you upload for others to see

    41. ‘Lectures with pictures about scientific, historical or whatever subject you like – some of those were quite interesting, especially the animal ones


    42. The local paper took pictures of their resident hero and by the time that the fisherman got home to his caravan, his wife had heard all about her brave husband’s stirring deeds that afternoon on the radio


    43. Framed pictures of children and wildlife hung from the whitewashed walls


    44. Despite their busy hands working hard, the women appear happy … nothing like the pictures I have seen of factories in the Midlands


    45. These images culminated in a sequence of grainy pictures depicting John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, as recorded at the dawn of the broadcast age


    46. The cups they came in were pretty nice, stemmed glass with pictures in them, the stem made of a ceramic and the base was heavy


    47. The lights, the pictures, the coat stand, his sad old shoes, everything was OK until I saw a photo of me and him kissing and I was in shreds again


    48. Her great-aunt watched over her throughout the afternoon, revealing snippets of family history, and sketching pictures from her own life story, all of which seemed to consist of too many broken hearts and broken heads, until, with the football results due in and Leonard Cohen starting to become a little bit overbearing, she turned to her young relative and asked, “Do you want to stay for dinner? There’s a DVD I want to watch and we could phone out for a curry”


    49. After a week of clandestine activity the Trojan Horse virus despatched a summary of all the dreadful links, stories and pictures that it had found on its trawling expeditions in the howling hours and subsequently installed in a hidden area on Danny’s hard drive


    50. She listened to the story unfold with a growing sense of unease and disappointment, a sense that rapidly turned to despair and utter devastation when the pictures cut to the image of an ecstatic twelve year old from Grimsby who would be attending a gala bash in London the following weekend where the boy and his band would finally be unveiled














































    1. He gazed out the window, picturing himself gently leaping from cloud to cloud as they descended Juneau


    2. "Hmmm," Violet said, picturing her pony army traipsing over the hills, nickering and shoving dumb boys out of the way


    3. She was picturing this huge combine in a one acre garden


    4. I was picturing you for coated karga strips on seasoned greens


    5. lot of time thinking about his family, picturing Marguerite’s


    6. Still, she couldn’t help picturing their deaths


    7. As the large band of badgers marched towards their destiny, the column passed directly beneath Cherva's hiding place and he stared down at them in contempt, picturing their lingering deaths in the coming battle


    8. He stood on the spot picturing his dad’s good looks, (they used to say he was a dead ringer for Dirk Bogarde), and Stan’s endlessly fuming pipe


    9. I was then picturing him running to one of his bookshelves and grabbing a science book and saying something like: what you are experiencing Phil is the phenomenon known as olfactory taste osmosis


    10. Either we are a physical image of God, which some would say is anthropomorphism at its worst, picturing God as we see ourselves; or we have within us, in some manner, an image of God, that is not material

    11. I kept picturing his brow-less brows raised as he laughed with joy through his nose about our victory


    12. He said his other job was working with computers, but I still have trouble picturing him sitting in front of a screen all day


    13. “I can’t stop picturing it


    14. I sit stunned in my chair, picturing the broken roads and shattered windows and toppled streetlights in the factionless sector of the city, the destruction that is evident nowhere else—not even north of the bridge, where the buildings are empty but seem to have been vacated peacefully


    15. “Master Andreya, please show them this,” said Kellyn as she started mentally picturing all kinds of horrid creatures


    16. I was picturing her in my head and


    17. time picturing the angriest, most foul-mouthed female


    18. He kept picturing a Special Forces sergeant held in a bamboo cage


    19. ” She cast a four-foot high illusion of the symbol she was picturing in the air


    20. More than that, he knew he would never be able to convey it, either by writing or by picturing it in his mind for another

    21. Saeed frowned, nodding his head as if he was picturing what Aaron was saying in his mind


    22. Charly thanked her warmly, picturing herself in front of Clay Feister, his beady eyes popping with surprise as she bought a CD


    23. This gets back to picturing a universe without other humans and you get a pretty simplified idea of what truth is about


    24. While my confidence grew as I got older, I still had trouble picturing me being used like the great men in the Bible stories I would share


    25. He leaned his head to one side, picturing the damage he would do


    26. Picturing the coming evening‘s performance, and Sebastian in his tiny pouch at the pool, increased the pleasure of orgasm and he groaned in relief, relaxing for a minute before showering off sweat, cum and carpet fluff


    27. I was seething on the inside, picturing little Nathan last night so worried about his mother, making me promise to make sure she was safe while meeting this vile man, his father


    28. Easy! Instead of picturing yourself with your problems solved, hold pictures of


    29. This they could achieve by picturing in the local media that the Indian writing in English was making waves everywhere in the West


    30. “Why not, if only you serve me?” he said picturing their future

    31. Now, what if I told you that she is a black woman? Were you picturing her as a generic


    32. As we chatted I began picturing this


    33. It’s just, I just have a hard time picturing you out there alone with some of the stories I have heard


    34. Picturing the structure in which he wanted to rebuild that part of the ground into, Clastaan send this into the transmutation energy


    35. She's not picturing Andrew on one knee in front of her with a rose


    36. Picturing a positive end result is an act of faith


    37. Mitchell watched the three boys gasping for another precious breath, picturing his father�s face on the oversized catcher, with the loose lips


    38. She was quite clearly picturing me, in that same chair, where I sit day after day, playing with my dick


    39. Nevertheless, in mentally picturing the plane scenario, automatically sends his energy to the next stage, which is to collect how he feels emotionally


    40. If he backs off the picturing and changes his images, the fear will dissipate, but it will not dissolve and next time it will resurface for experiencing

    41. As there is an aversion to picturing and emotionally connecting to ones own death, then this maintains a natural level of resistance


    42. While I understand that men readers spent their energy picturing the two women during coitus and female readers wondered if they were prettier than them when they were their age, neither of these justifies the amount of time I've spent in this building


    43. “Oh yeah,” said Shoop gazing off into the middle distance picturing the


    44. Margaret Thatcher shaving her legs but was disturbed to find that picturing


    45. "It won't be me," added Brale, picturing the horror of it


    46. Rooster would be cringing had he known a vagabond was drinking his prized liquid straight out of the bottle, and I couldn’t help but laugh picturing the expression on his face had he been standing next to me


    47. I will have you know that he was picturing you on the table


    48. I giggled, picturing Samual on a throne, adorned with a


    49. He thought of his uncle as Reggie, picturing him as the mismatched suit of armor that had watched him all his young life


    50. Before I experienced Him, I had to abandon my agreement with the lie, begin to embrace the truth, meditate in the truth, welcome it like a friend, hugging it, and seeing it, and picturing it, until my heart welcomed it, and the day my heart welcomed it, I felt the demonic realm shift around me, and I encountered the Lord









































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    Synonyms for "picture"

    painting picture exposure photo photograph pic icon ikon image impression mental picture video film flick motion-picture show motion picture movie moving-picture show moving picture picture show pictorial matter characterisation characterization delineation depiction word-painting word picture scene envision fancy figure project see visualise visualize depict render show representation semblance similitude piece drawing illustration portrait account portrayal cinema delineate describe draw imagine paint represent

    "picture" definitions

    a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface


    graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface


    a clear and telling mental image


    a situation treated as an observable object


    illustrations used to decorate or explain a text


    a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement


    the visible part of a television transmission


    a graphic or vivid verbal description


    a typical example of some state or quality


    a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format


    imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind


    show in, or as in, a picture