paint a picture

VERB
  1. call to mind
    this remark evoked sadness
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How To Use paint a picture In A Sentence

  • He was simply trying to paint a picture of a possible or intelligible immaterial world.
  • You can see the rough outlines, and we had some original diaries to help paint a picture, but it has slowly been reclaimed by nature. Times, Sunday Times
  • The report will paint a picture of an organisation riven by infighting, mistrust and suspicion. Times, Sunday Times
  • Government and health ministry officials try to paint a picture of the dengue epidemics as unpreventable natural disasters.
  • If I were a painter, I would paint a picture for you.
  • We must be careful, however, not to paint a picture of historical evidence that suggests that newspapers are the keystones of such documentation.
  • Her undercover work was instead used to paint a picture of a woman who could not be trusted. The Sun
  • You need to compose your career the way you would write a piece of music or paint a picture.
  • Declassified documents released by the FBI this week paint a picture of an esteemed and learned man who nonetheless fell prey to a long-term debilitating habit while he was a Supreme Court justice during the 1970s. Medication Missteps
  • The statistics paint a picture of munchers and snackers toiling over crumb-infested keyboards, surrounded by a sea of empty potato-chip bags and unfurled candy-bar wrappers.
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