word picture
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of word picture
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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
Now, if I can paint a word picture for you, on the grounds is the White House.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2017
A writer has given a vivid word picture of the social contrasts of the disaster night and the beautiful evening before.
From Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Prince, Samuel Henry
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