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
Patriot’s players embraced their coaches, and they captured a mental picture of the scoreboard: a 47-39 edge in their favor, the final exorcism of last year’s loss.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2023
“I just got this mental picture of an arcade cabinet with a giant rubber trombone attached,” he said.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022
In minutes, Gregor' was hopelessly lost, and the mental picture of their path that he’d been making in his head resembled one of Boots’s squiggly drawings.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
