picturesquely
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The other day, I noticed that a surprising number of women I know are following the Instagram account of a woman in the Scottish countryside whose horses picturesquely wander into her cottage’s rustic kitchen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
The lifestyle she chose for herself and her family once back in the States was picturesquely free-spirited.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023
Essentially, “The French Dispatch” is a mid-20th-century edition of The New Yorker magazine, if it were published in a small French town and everyone involved was picturesquely eccentric.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021
But the story itself is repetitive, much like the Ferris wheel that lends the film its title, and which is featured, oh so picturesquely, every now and again, in the background.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2017
Rice and soy meal help when we can get them, to balance our amino acids and keep our muscle tissue from digesting itself in the process known picturesquely as kwashiorkor.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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