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 just got this mental picture of an arcade cabinet with a giant rubber trombone attached,” he said.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022
You might imagine that when you perceive something like a checkerboard, your brain passively takes a mental picture of the grid.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 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
It was the classic kind, the sort of spinning wheel most people imagined if they needed to form a mental picture of one.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
