How to Use picture in a Sentence

picture

1 of 2 noun
  • I hung the picture on the wall.
  • The book has a lot of pictures.
  • Draw a picture of your house.
  • The staff looked at the financial picture of the company.
  • The overall economic picture is improving.
  • Beard saw her on the street and asked to take her picture.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, each picture is paired with the item seen in it.
    Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The customer doesn’t get the full picture or emotion of the brand.
    Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The lieutenant keeps an old picture of the two men on his phone.
    Bloomberg.com, 19 July 2017
  • The bigger picture is that a flag is more than just a flag.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 18 June 2020
  • In the boulangerie, there was a picture of a goat on a steep hill.
    Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Brown has a picture of Joshua on the lock screen of his phone.
    Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Walk around, take your picture in front of a few of the murals.
    Matt Young, Chron, 13 July 2021
  • Doug still has a picture of the camp up in his house in Maine.
    USA Today, 10 Jan. 2022
  • In the broader picture, the costs are also hard to miss.
    Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • There is a cool picture about that, but that’s about the extent of that.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Some of these guys will be looking at the picture for the job market.
    Eric Olson, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • Take a picture and look it up on your phone, or read a plant book.
    Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
  • Even so, Ross has the big-picture in mind with the Cubs.
    Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Parents have pictures of the boys all jumping off a dock at the same time.
    Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 24 July 2019
  • In the big-picture view of things in this country, nobody cares.
    Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2018
  • That’s small-picture stuff, just like most of that put out there is.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The rover soon sent its first picture of Mars back to Earth.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Pro here isn't in great lighting, and turns in a rather dark picture.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
  • All of this because a woman had a nice day with some friends and shared a picture.
    Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Stay true to yourself and know that there is a bigger picture here.
    Eric Berkley, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The bill in New York could make that picture a bit less grim.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
  • In that picture, Calkins stands out from the other cadets.
    Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Last week, my daughter had to miss picture day at school.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • What’s most striking is there are no pictures on the walls, which are white and bare.
    Arizona Republic, azcentral, 21 June 2018
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picture

2 of 2 verb
  • Picture what it would be like if you didn't own a car.
  • Can you picture him as a teacher?
  • I can still picture the house I grew up in.
  • I can't picture changing jobs at this point in my life.
  • Not pictured is the hat that police say the toupee bulged out of.
    Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
  • The singer will be pictured on the next series of bottles.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
  • So many of the people pictured in the book stare off elsewhere.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Most of us picture one as a tiny swimmer with a head and a long tail.
    Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
  • One way to see how is to picture a knot traced on a surface.
    Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
  • Just picture yourself on one of these lounges in the water!
    Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 4 May 2023
  • But did one of them picture a small wedding on a beach?
    Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The Bride in the Large Glass is pictured at front left.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Cassie had spent a good amount of the past month trying to picture these people.
    Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The pair were even pictured kissing while filming a scene.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Or, picture the thin white woman in dancer pose on the edge of a cliff with her eyes closed.
    Marie Southard Ospina, SELF, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Baby back ribs These are the small ribs pictured in the middle.
    Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Please pause to picture the Queen wearing such a thing.
    Emma Baty, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
  • All boring cars are the same, so just picture the boring car of your choice.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Just picture him at the grill, killing the burger game in this canvas number.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 18 May 2022
  • That way, job seekers can picture themselves as part of the team—or not.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The images showed those pictured with nooses around their necks.
    Tammerlin Drummond, The Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But the most important piece of this leaderboard is not pictured here.
    Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 18 June 2019
  • To read more about the Sportsmobile van pictured above, head over here.
    Megan Barber, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Smith can’t picture what her life would be like without camp.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • Markle was pictured wearing a black dress with a wool coat draped over her shoulders.
    Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 6 Dec. 2018
  • If your favorite king and queen are not pictured in the slideshow above, send photos to photos@chron.com to be added.
    Dana Guthrie, Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2017
  • He was famously pictured for the drummer boy for that war.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In the heat, ice was a little hard to picture, let alone icebreaking.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, picture a nasal spray or a patch stuck onto the skin for a few minutes.
    Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 26 July 2022
  • Britt can easily picture him as a team captain in a few years.
    Giana Han, al, 24 Sep. 2020

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