mental picture
Example Sentences
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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 just got this mental picture of an arcade cabinet with a giant rubber trombone attached,” he said.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022
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
