Example Sentences

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I also realized pretty much everyone looked nothing like what I had pictured, which could be what some participants experience after seeing the person they’re supposed to very quickly marry for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

She initially had pictured a blue kitchen, but the outside of her house already is blue, and she has blue wallpaper in another room.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

It wasn't how Emma, Soe-Myat and Elspeth had pictured their early adulthood.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2022

The swan bed didn't quite look the way I had pictured it.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2022

When Dulcet had said “river,” he had pictured the rivers that flowed through New York City.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins