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.
• Even so, Ross has the big-picture in mind with the Cubs.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Brown has a picture of Joshua on the lock screen of his phone.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
• Doug still has a picture of the camp up in his house in Maine.
  — USA Today, 10 Jan. 2022
• The customer doesn’t get the full picture or emotion of the brand.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 25 Oct. 2017
• In the picture, Wells hands are wrapped around Sarah's waist.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 11 Sep. 2019
• The rover soon sent its first picture of Mars back to Earth.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021
• In the boulangerie, there was a picture of a goat on a steep hill.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
• The lieutenant keeps an old picture of the two men on his phone.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 July 2017
• The bill in New York could make that picture a bit less grim.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• There is a cool picture about that, but that’s about the extent of that.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 12 Nov. 2018
• Walk around, take your picture in front of a few of the murals.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 13 July 2021
• The bigger picture is that a flag is more than just a flag.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 18 June 2020
• The recording is just like a picture of a 10-year-old kid.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2023
• In the broader picture, the costs are also hard to miss.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Take a picture and look it up on your phone, or read a plant book.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• In the big-picture view of things in this country, nobody cares.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2018
• Some of these guys will be looking at the picture for the job market.
  — Eric Olson, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
• Yet this might be a true picture of the world through Parton’s eyes.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• Pro here isn't in great lighting, and turns in a rather dark picture.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
• The box of a puzzle has a picture with the finished product on the cover.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• Parents have pictures of the boys all jumping off a dock at the same time.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 24 July 2019

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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.
• The Bride in the Large Glass is pictured at front left.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
• Jenny Nguyen, founder of the Sports Bra, pictured at the bar.
  — Katie C Reilly, ELLE, 27 July 2023
• Not pictured is the hat that police say the toupee bulged out of.
  — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
• It’s not so hard to picture the worst days of 2020 now.
  — Susanna Schrobsdorff, Time, 23 May 2021
• The singer will be pictured on the next series of bottles.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• Most of us picture one as a tiny swimmer with a head and a long tail.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
• So many of the people pictured in the book stare off elsewhere.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• To read more about the Sportsmobile van pictured above, head over here.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2018
• One way to see how is to picture a knot traced on a surface.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
• And now, she’s been pictured at the movies with your other crush, Jon Hamm.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 20 June 2017
• Her casket, pictured here in a hearse, is adorned with a U.S. flag.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
• Just picture yourself on one of these lounges in the water!
  — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 4 May 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
• But did one of them picture a small wedding on a beach?
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• Baby back ribs These are the small ribs pictured in the middle.
  — Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 21 Aug. 2019
• Cassie had spent a good amount of the past month trying to picture these people.
  — Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The show centers on two of Thomas’s collages, one of which is pictured above.
  — Mary Dellas, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018
• Please pause to picture the Queen wearing such a thing.
  — Emma Baty, Cosmopolitan, 8 Jan. 2018
• That way, job seekers can picture themselves as part of the team—or not.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The pair were even pictured kissing while filming a scene.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• The rack pictured is a squeaky-clean 10-point with no abnormal points.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 2 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The giant beef rib (picture it: a hunk of greasy meat on a foot-long bone) is fun for the spectacle.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Lawdy Mama pictures the artist’s cousin with a large Afro.
  — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024