mental picture
Example Sentences
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The listener leaves with a lively mental picture of the author in his tie-dyed hippie glory, a “disheveled U-boat captain from another galaxy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
Was it all the I’s that did it or the mental picture that streaked cometlike across the unfocused lens of her mind?
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
