How to Use paint/draw a picture of in a Sentence

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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
  • Here are five fascinating finds that paint a picture of the Yukon’s past.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • McCartney was able to paint a picture of what success on this front looks like.
    — Gabriel Kinder, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their accounts paint a picture of a brutal operation that left no room for due process.
    — Jon Swaine, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
  • Recent polling data paint a picture of a society in profound flux since the Hamas attack.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The findings paint a picture of a regime meting out torture on an industrial scale, to crush an uprising that has posed the biggest domestic threat to the clerical elite in decades.
    — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In his remarks, Putin attempted to paint a picture of a unified country that broadly supports his strategy.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023

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