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
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
I tried to make a mental picture of that.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
