How to Use paint/draw a picture of in a Sentence
paint/draw a picture of
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That should help scientists paint a picture of how the virus has evolved in recent years.
—Denise Roland, WSJ, 2 June 2022
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Here are five fascinating finds that paint a picture of the Yukon’s past.
—Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
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And Lazaro says the defense can paint a picture of James Craig as a kind and attentive partner.
—Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
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McCartney was able to paint a picture of what success on this front looks like.
—Gabriel Kinder, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
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Instead, To’o To’o tried to paint a picture of his position coach the past two seasons.
—Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 3 Mar. 2023
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The stunning snaps paint a picture of the attention to detail that goes into every aspect of the tour.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 25 July 2023
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Transcripts from the first and the last parole hearings – of which there were 17 – paint a picture of Woods’ demeanor and mindset at the beginning and the end of his prison stint.
—Fox News, 26 Sep. 2022
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The next 12 games could paint a picture of just how well the Blazers can continue to compete without Lillard in the lineup.
—oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2022
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In fact, a decade and a half ago, Kevin Kelly, a cofounder of this magazine, asked hundreds of people to draw a picture of the internet.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
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Their accounts paint a picture of a brutal operation that left no room for due process.
—Jon Swaine, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
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Recent polling data paint a picture of a society in profound flux since the Hamas attack.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
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Glimpses of Marley performing on stage to the singer relaxing with his family paint a picture of his life.
—Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 6 July 2023
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Transcripts that the Journal shared paint a picture of a lack of trust and communication between Gard and his players.
—Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 June 2021
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Listening to a skilled announcer verbally paint a picture of what is going on at the ballpark is one of the joys of listening to a game.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
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Accounts from people caught in the gunfire when a man started shooting at an Allen, Texas, mall over the weekend paint a picture of fear and devastation.
—Elise Hammond, CNN, 9 May 2023
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And although some might worry about the microbes hiding in our cities, the results paint a picture of relative safety, Mason says.
—Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 26 May 2021
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In that first team meeting, which took place by phone, Dass tried to paint a picture of herself and Bieniasz as responsible parents.
—Shoshana Walter, New York Times, 29 June 2023
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The findings paint a picture of a state in flux, with factors such as soaring home prices, dwindling birth rates and more work-from-home options contributing to a population on the move.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
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The records paint a picture of 64-year-old Stephen Paddock as a recluse who became increasingly interested in guns in recent years.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
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Having worked in all three of its predecessors, Downs was the perfect person to help paint a picture of Heaven Hill's past and get grapple on what this new site could mean for its future.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2022
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Our team, for instance, is preparing a grassroots project that will paint a picture of what everyday life in a democratic Russia might be like.
—Aleksei Miniailo, Foreign Affairs, 28 Dec. 2023
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Together, Cole’s tales paint a picture of himself as a survivor who has traded in remorse for gratitude.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2021
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Hals may have become famous for his lifelike portraits, but the only way to depict his own life, Steven Nadler suggests in The Portraitist, is to paint a picture of the social world in which he was embedded.
—Ruth Bernard Yeazell, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
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The thousands of internal documents obtained in discovery for this paint a picture of a company that lost its way.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2022
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The stories told along the way not only paint a picture of a decadeslong fight to restore a river’s flow and a way of life but also the distinct challenges of finding enough water to go around amid a changing climate.
—oregonlive, 17 June 2023
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And the headlines of the business section now have been stitched together with legal filings to paint a picture of corporate America taking care of its own.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 6 Oct. 2021
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Many publicly available statistics paint a picture of systemic racial bias in the United States, a concept the writer denies later in his letter.
—Star Tribune, 7 June 2021
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Many top public safety officials pointed to the 12-year-old charged last week in nine separate carjackings, robberies and assaults to paint a picture of a crisis among the city’s youths.
—Emily Davies, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
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Video of the ship, emergency radio transmissions and analysis from maritime veterans paint a picture of a disastrous scenario.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
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Those numbers paint a picture of a high-achieving demographic that is well-suited for success in academic competitions.
—Ben Nuckols, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2024
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