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
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
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
“That way I get a mental picture and can start to relax and really open up to the experience.”
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022
A mental picture of hamburger, the way they showed it in the television commercials, thundered into his thoughts.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
