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 lieutenant keeps an old picture of the two men on his phone.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 July 2017
• The customer doesn’t get the full picture or emotion of the brand.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 25 Oct. 2017
• The bigger picture is that a flag is more than just a flag.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 18 June 2020
• Brown has a picture of Joshua on the lock screen of his phone.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• In the boulangerie, there was a picture of a goat on a steep hill.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
• Doug still has a picture of the camp up in his house in Maine.
  — USA Today, 10 Jan. 2022
• Walk around, take your picture in front of a few of the murals.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 13 July 2021
• In the broader picture, the costs are also hard to miss.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• Some of these guys will be looking at the picture for the job market.
  — Eric Olson, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
• There is a cool picture about that, but that’s about the extent of that.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 12 Nov. 2018
• Parents have pictures of the boys all jumping off a dock at the same time.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 24 July 2019
• 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
• The rover soon sent its first picture of Mars back to Earth.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021
• In the big-picture view of things in this country, nobody cares.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2018
• 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
• That’s small-picture stuff, just like most of that put out there is.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• In that picture, Calkins stands out from the other cadets.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• Why not give them a picture in a nice frame of their grandchildren?
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2022
• Pro here isn't in great lighting, and turns in a rather dark picture.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
• One man made his terms clear to any potential wife who might come in the picture.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020

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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
• The images showed those pictured with nooses around their necks.
  — Tammerlin Drummond, The Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2017
• 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
• But the most important piece of this leaderboard is not pictured here.
  — Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 18 June 2019
• That way, job seekers can picture themselves as part of the team—or not.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Markle was pictured wearing a black dress with a wool coat draped over her shoulders.
  — Marina Liao, Marie Claire, 6 Dec. 2018
• Smith can’t picture what her life would be like without camp.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• He was famously pictured for the drummer boy for that war.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• To read more about the Sportsmobile van pictured above, head over here.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2018
• Britt can easily picture him as a team captain in a few years.
  — Giana Han, al, 24 Sep. 2020
• Now picture each of those cans tied to thousands of other strings outside your home.
  — Frank Bajak, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
• If your favorite king and queen are not pictured in the slideshow above, send photos to [e-mail] to be added.
  — Dana Guthrie, Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2017
• Instead, picture a nasal spray or a patch stuck onto the skin for a few minutes.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 26 July 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024