word picture
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of word picture
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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I vividly remember Noseda using “imagined dialogue” to paint a word picture of the mood he wanted conveyed by our singing.
From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2021
It can kind of turn into a word picture or phrase where you’re just leading the team.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2021
It always helps when you can paint a word picture for voters, as Biden does with his new ad.
From Fox News • Sep. 28, 2020
Sebald is describing a collective death, a falling away; the people in this word picture, like the felled trees he describes in “The Rings of Saturn,” are as if caught in a kind of swoon.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017
Thus should we have had a glowing word picture of the beautiful instead of the hideous—the paradise of the sea, and not its hell.
From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard
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