picture
noun
a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc..
have been picturing
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present perfect progressiveof picture.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Instead, they’re indicative of the challenges a good surgeon like Ting faces as he tries to tailor his course of treatment to what individuals have been picturing in their heads for most of their lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
The dark spots I have been picturing arose entirely from the bad tempers, dispositions, and ill-conduct of those ruled.
From Ernest Bracebridge School Days by William I. Thomas
Now, you see, you don't look so old, or so big, or so imposing, as I have been picturing you to myself.'
From Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
It probably isn't half as bad as I have been picturing it.
From The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
We have been picturing atoms, and molecules, and vibrations, and waves, which eye has never seen nor ear heard, and which can only be discerned by the exercise of imagination.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
