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
Tendai had a mental picture of his father lining up everyone in the city.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
