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a graphic or vivid verbal description
too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters
the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland
How To Use word picture In A Sentence
- I soon realized Fitzgerald was not asking questions of me but speaking to the grand jury members, painting a word picture for them. COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE
- In his description, Ruskin does not refer directly to slavery (for which he has often been criticised) but through his own vivid word picture shows how Turner made an unbeautiful subject beautiful.
- too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures
- As you might imagine, its name gives a vivid word picture for the color changes, blushing from ivory to pink and finally red when mature.
- The miniseries he produced had a homemade look appropriate both to the sales talents and the antipolitical instincts of its star; its early episodes consisted mostly of Ross Perot talking plain Texas talk about the economy or painting rose-tinted word pictures of himself. The Second Coming
- Therefore you can happily build word pictures with which to beguile and captivate an audience.