mental picture
Example Sentences
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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
"It feels like you're living in Alcatraz. I go outside just to get a mental picture of what outside is."
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2021
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
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
