Sentence examples for call a picture from inspiring English sources

If you venture into the woods and bend close enough to a rock and its clinging lichen to see nothing else, you do not exclaim, "What a lovely landscape!" But what else can you call a picture of a rock, a hummock, a few leaves hung out before a blank sky as if to dry?

The cushion sea star - reddish-orange with five leather-like arms - inhabits what we call a picture-perfect beach.

There's only one primitive called a picture, and a picture is not quite what you think it is.

When I realized that my first ever story was commonly called a picture book, I got interested in the medium.

A group of generals and senior officials enlisted 60 artists to commemorate the party's 60th year in power that year by painting a 120-metre-long scroll called "A Picture of a Chinese Harmonious Shengshi".

Earlier this summer, Californians Brad and Amy Herzog came up with an idea for what they're calling "a picture book for adults about a man-child": D Is for Dump Trump: An Anti-Hate Alphabet.

The report, called A Picture of Public Services in Wales, lays out the big financial challenges facing the sector.

It's been what some (and not others) are calling a picture perfect IPO, and to celebrate, CEO and founder Jon Oringer rang the bell to start trading this morning at the New York Stock Exchange.

Quote of note: Mapa called a picture of his family, shown on one of the big screens, "Vladimir Putin's worst nightmare," before addressing discrimination in this country.

North America might be many things -- a geographic expression, a commercial bloc, a cultural laboratory -- but it is not, alas, what Walter Lippman called "a picture inside our heads".

Travelling is one of those euphemisms that makes an activity sound more intellectual than it is, like calling a picture book a "graphic novel" or someone who works in Costa a "latte artist".