word picture
a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
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How to use word picture in a sentence
Instead, she paints word pictures of the tensions that bedevil urban policing.
A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat | Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostHe had already had a description from Jacques Sabatier, but a word-picture from another source might make the man clearer to him.
The Light That Lures | Percy BrebnerCharcot's scheme of word-picture combination: 1, Auditory image.
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology | C. G. JungLet me take you by a brief word picture to Italy, the first home of the pergola as we see it hereabouts today.
Her fragile body, he relates in the graphic word picture he drew, enveloped her spirit but as a gauzy veil.
Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters | H. Addington Bruce
He painted a vivid word picture of the distressing conditions under which soda was produced in the old-time factories.
Every-day Science: Volume VI. The Conquest of Nature | Henry Smith Williams
British Dictionary definitions for word picture
a verbal description, esp a vivid one
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