picture
noun
a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc..
had been picturing
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past perfect progressiveof picture.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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When I finished reading, I realized that what I had been picturing was all wrong: I had been imagining many, many actresses crammed on stage, when, actually, there was only ever one.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2014
Like any boy his age, his head was full of dreams of glory; no doubt he had been picturing the prowess he would display at Deepwood Motte.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The poor bird had been picturing all the fights —almost certainly picturing them quite wrong: nourishing a starved heart on secondhand accounts in secret: wondering whose token was in the place of honour today.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He had been picturing to himself how his lost boy would look, but none of his visions resembled the awkward-looking boy who stood sheepishly by the side of Mrs. Brent.
From The Errand Boy by Horatio Alger
Over and over again he had been picturing the dreadful scenes which he had experienced.
From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince
