Picture is an English word with synonyms like image or show. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Picture in a sentence
Related words
Picture meaning
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- A painting.
Synonyms of Picture
Using Picture
- The main meaning on this page is: A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. | An image; a representation as in the imagination. | A painting.
- Useful related words include: image, show, pictorial matter, state of affairs.
- In the example corpus, picture often appears in combinations such as: picture of, the picture, best picture.
Example sentences (20)
Your picture must not just be a pretty picture, but a picture with a message.
Digital picture frames Kodak first entered the digital picture frame market with the Kodak Smart Picture Frame in the fourth quarter of 2000.
When a RTF document is opened in software that does not support the picture type of an inserted picture, such picture is not displayed at all.
A composite picture showing a computer generated image released by the Italian Police, right, and a picture of Mafia top boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
A picture of a sign for Spencer Grill and a picture of the food.
Cheung superimposes a picture of a railroad spike onto the picture, while one of Florence Ho Leong’s eyes is covered with a coin.
Demonstrations showcasing the image or vision processing of inputted images have indicated that the items in a picture for example could be identified by the generative AI and then composed into a written narrative explaining the picture.
Each player got an autographed picture of McLean, as well as Canucks memorabilia and a team picture featuring coaches as well as McLean and Fin.
Eventually, the heels regained the momentum when Dutch hit Allin with clothesline and the show went into its final picture-in-picture break.
He again brought a picture of his son to show a judge as he did in 1999, and this time he also brought a picture of his son's gravesite.
He learned how to do online editing and picture-in-picture videos, which lets the user watch a video in a small window pinned to the corner of the screen.
In 1959, two years before his death in 1961, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded de Forest an honorary Oscar for the “pioneer invention which brought sound to the motion picture”.
In this way the picture emerges, a picture of urban life that becomes clearer and clearer with every discovery.
One such picture is made up of simple black and white stripes, yet it also boasts a picture of a that can only be found by those with a "high IQ".
The guild’s Darryl F. Zanuck award - the equivalent of best picture - has foreshadowed 23 of 33 “best picture” Oscar winners since the awards began.
The picture in picture stuff was out of hand during the main event along with the abrupt ending.
The picture showed two interlocking colours, which some users interpreted as a picture of a wall and a ceiling – prompting concerns the bot was taking its own photos with users’ cameras without their permission.
This picture, part of a panoramic picture taken in June 1957, comes from Glenys Hudson, of Waverley Avenue, Kidlington, who, as Glenys Howard, was a pupil in the school’s final years.
This will create a picture-in-picture window that allows users to open other windows, tabs and apps while simultaneously watching a livestream.
While the lone picture for the enterprise is important, what's even more important is the deposit picture.
Common combinations with picture
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- picture of 64×
- the picture 55×
- best picture 17×
- motion picture 16×
- picture is 12×
- picture and 12×
- in picture 8×
- picture in 8×
- picture for 7×
- picture on 7×