mental picture
Example Sentences
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Mauludi already has a mental picture of his first moments back on home soil.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Almost everyone with a stock or bond portfolio has a different mental picture of what they want to accomplish with their investments, if not how to get there.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025
“I keep a mental picture of Meyerbeer,” he said, referring to the once ubiquitous and now rarely heard 19th-century composer, “just to remind myself: Here today, gone tomorrow.”
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2022
Most include at least one prospect, a word that, outside the sport, is defined as the act of looking forward, a mental picture of something to come or something that is awaited or expected.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2021
Gregor tried to get a mental picture of how many people that would be.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
