Example Sentences

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They are pictured barely aware of each other's presence; after 48 years of marriage, Kenneth and Laura are together but somehow apart.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

“I never pictured myself making voices. That’s another thing that I learned from this course — you don’t have to be so serious all the time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

A DUP MP has rejected criticism of her after she was pictured at a protest standing near masked men.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Doundoulakis’s nerve-wracking encounter with Nazi guards ends with something I pictured the young Clint Eastwood being made to say: “An older man might have thought, I’m lucky. Helias thought, I’m good.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

She pictured their freckled faces, imagined the feel of their hands.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis