How to Use picture in a Sentence
- I hung the picture on the wall.
- The book has a lot of pictures.
- Draw a picture of your house.
- The staff looked at the financial picture of the company.
- The overall economic picture is improving.
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The two men hugged and took a picture.
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Wendy Grossman Kantor,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
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Some see good news in this picture.
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Gina Chua,
semafor.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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All that was left was best picture.
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Paul Fischer,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Mar. 2026
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What is wrong with this picture?
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Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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But that’s not the whole picture.
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Jocelyn Solis-Moreira,
Flow Space,
7 Nov. 2025
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And the stuff that isn’t pictures?
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Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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The world isn’t just a picture frozen in time.
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Eric Sullivan,
Scientific American,
9 Jan. 2026
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Now, what’s wrong with that picture?
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Jamie McIntyre,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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There are a lot of white folks in those pictures.
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Hank Tester,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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No doubt there’ll be a few pictures about that.
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David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Take a picture and look it up on your phone, or read a plant book.
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Kenneth Setzer,
miamiherald,
11 July 2018
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That’s small-picture stuff, just like most of that put out there is.
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Dave Hyde,
sun-sentinel.com,
15 Aug. 2019
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Then, make sure some things aren’t marked with pictures, but with words.
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Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
22 June 2026
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That picture works fine for Earth.
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Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
24 May 2026
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Some would even pull over on the side of the road to take pictures of it.
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Roger Simmons,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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There are quite a lot of pictures of her doing that.
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Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
19 Mar. 2026
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You’re not allowed to take its picture or record it.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
8 June 2026
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Brown has a picture of Joshua on the lock screen of his phone.
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Michael Lev,
The Arizona Republic,
9 Aug. 2022
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The same brush painted the bleak picture for both schools.
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David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Jan. 2026
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No more texting the same picture eight times.
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Daphne Wilder,
Miami Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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Use tools that show a full picture of your spending and habits.
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Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
7 Nov. 2025
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The lieutenant keeps an old picture of the two men on his phone.
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Bloomberg.com,
19 July 2017
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Doug still has a picture of the camp up in his house in Maine.
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USA Today,
10 Jan. 2022
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One fan approached and asked for a picture.
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Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
24 Sep. 2025
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Walk around, take your picture in front of a few of the murals.
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Matt Young,
Chron,
13 July 2021
- Picture what it would be like if you didn't own a car.
- Can you picture him as a teacher?
- I can still picture the house I grew up in.
- I can't picture changing jobs at this point in my life.
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Shop the rack in black, rose gold, or gold (pictured).
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Kristi Kellogg,
Architectural Digest,
7 Oct. 2025
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Close your eyes and picture a Rolex.
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Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
9 Mar. 2026
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True was pictured with her hair up in two space buns with two tiny braids in front.
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Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Close your eyes and picture your happy place.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
20 Apr. 2026
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Not pictured is the hat that police say the toupee bulged out of.
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Hannah Knowles,
Washington Post,
16 July 2019
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Smith can’t picture what her life would be like without camp.
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Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2023
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Most of us picture one as a tiny swimmer with a head and a long tail.
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Connor Lynch,
Discover Magazine,
1 Sep. 2021
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They are pictured with their three daughters.
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Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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He wasn’t pictured in the carousel, but was there cheering her on.
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Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
7 Oct. 2025
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Each pictured a boy and girl who were naked but had no genitalia.
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David Sedaris,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Their priest is pictured on the other side of Wahlberg.
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Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026
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So many of the people pictured in the book stare off elsewhere.
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BostonGlobe.com,
11 Sep. 2019
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Or, picture the thin white woman in dancer pose on the edge of a cliff with her eyes closed.
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Marie Southard Ospina,
SELF,
11 Jan. 2022
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All boring cars are the same, so just picture the boring car of your choice.
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Elana Scherr,
Car and Driver,
26 Sep. 2020
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Cassie had spent a good amount of the past month trying to picture these people.
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Andrew Martin,
Harper's Magazine,
26 Oct. 2021
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Weaving was pictured in a bathrobe that was open and showed her baby bump.
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Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
27 May 2026
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Weaving was pictured in a bathrobe that was open and showed her baby bump.
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Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
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Most people hear about petawatt lasers and picture something out of a movie.
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Ahmed Helal,
The Conversation,
17 Apr. 2026
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To read more about the Sportsmobile van pictured above, head over here.
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Megan Barber,
Curbed,
24 Sep. 2018
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Wave was pictured sitting on the stairs and holding a toy plane in his hand.
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Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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That way, job seekers can picture themselves as part of the team—or not.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
26 Jan. 2022
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Bloom was pictured in a bed, smiling for the camera.
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Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026
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They were pictured with their head turned away as Swank smiled at the camera.
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Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
30 Dec. 2025
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The pair were pictured beaming while wading hand in hand through the ocean waves.
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Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The images showed those pictured with nooses around their necks.
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Tammerlin Drummond,
The Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2017
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They were pictured in the wild, surrounded by fronds and trees.
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Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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