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Example sentences for "picturing"

Lexicographically close words:
pictured; pictures; picturesque; picturesquely; picturesqueness; picturings; picturs; pictus; picul; piculs
  1. He remained standing, hat in hand, his face shadowed, his eyes picturing deep perplexity.

  2. Picturing himself under the character of his favourite Horace, he makes the enemies of Horace thus describe him, still, however, preserving the high tone of poetical superiority.

  3. How could that lyrist be harsh in his diction, who almost draws tears from our eyes, while his melodious lines and picturing epithets are remembered by his readers?

  4. I stared out the window, picturing the night in my mind, wishing I was bound northward in one of the streaming points of light.

  5. After reading the cards, I would reread them, picturing the individual or family who took the time to send the cards.

  6. But the effort of picturing them there was too much for him; it was too far--too ridiculously far.

  7. And picturing Agatha's horror, when she came to hear of it, Barbara could not help a smile.

  8. Then he made his way into the house from the back, There was a light in the sitting-room, and he betook himself thither, picturing the homely scene of Sylvia knitting socks for her husband or engaged upon some housewifely task.

  9. All night long he had been picturing that swift journey and the goal that awaited him, and he was in a fever to accomplish it.

  10. They are the romance of history, vigorously told, with careful fidelity to picturing the life on ship-board, and accurate in every particular wherein mention is made of movement of vessels or the doings of noted persons.

  11. They are the romance of history, vigorously told, with careful fidelity to picturing the home life and accurate in every particular wherein mention is made of movement of troops, or the doings of noted persons.

  12. The control-room was a hemisphere, with vertical vision-screens picturing the stars overhead.

  13. The accounts of the Marseilles plague, one of the worst in history, would have kept him right in picturing that of London.

  14. I placed his menore on his head and gave him simple, forceful orders, picturing them for him as best I could: "Go from this place and find others of your kind.

  15. He was picturing vaguely a ray like a big insulated cable, with light and current both traveling along a core at its center, cut off, insulated by the ray, so that only the bare end where the ray stopped could make contact.

  16. In his great novels picturing the life of whole communities, Hamsun has thrown the glamour of his art over a big gallery of insignificant people.

  17. Time always approaches," she speaks: her mind has been wandering, picturing the gloomy spectacle that presents itself in Clotilda's cell.

  18. This idea froze the major, who left off cursing, picturing Mme Burle erect and despairing, and at the same time he felt his heart swell with personal grief and shame.

  19. It was like a waiting room in a suburban station, and Nana was again hugely disillusioned, for she had been picturing to herself something on a very vast scale, a monumental machine, in fact, for weighing horses.

  20. By picturing the process in this way we are brought face to face with a rule of nature which, once we have recognized it, proves to hold sway at all levels of organic nature.

  21. So we see that the concepts Dry and Moist, as they lived in the old picturing of them, mean a good deal more than we understand by them to-day.

  22. By picturing this process in our mind we become aware of a certain kinship of electricity with fire, since for ages the only known way of kindling fire was through friction.

  23. From the Terrapin Tower, the adjacent arm of the Horseshoe is seen projected against the opposite one, midway down; to the imagination, therefore, is left the picturing of the gulf into which the cataract plunges.

  24. The Germans express the act of picturing by the word vorstellen, and the picture they call a Vorstellung.

  25. Picturing in imagination the atoms of elementary bodies as little spheres, the molecules of compound bodies must be pictured as groups of such spheres.

  26. We have been picturing atoms, and molecules, and vibrations, and waves, which eye has never seen nor ear heard, and which can only be discerned by the exercise of imagination.

  27. Imagination must be quite nimble in picturing these changes--able to see the fluids dividing and reuniting, according as the magnet is brought near or withdrawn.

  28. No picturing of that scene can show the beauty of the view there presented to our eyes.

  29. As Photo means the light, Photography must mean A picturing of the light that falls Upon a thing, I ween.

  30. Now Geo means the earth; And so Geography Means picturing out or telling about This earth of ours, you see.

  31. But I think I find no greater difficulty in picturing the mental attitude of a sadistic lunatic than that of a normal man who gets pleasure out of women for whom he has no love.

  32. When picturing my childhood I always see myself racing about, jumping walls, climbing trees.

  33. All this did not tend to ease my mind as I lay picturing up the possibility of a terrible interview in the doctor's study.

  34. He is picturing that ideal city which he saw in his vision coming down from God out of heaven.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picturing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    concept; conception; image; imagery; picture; picturing; vision; visualization