PICTURESQUE in a Sentence
Learn PICTURESQUE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
50 example sentences for PICTURESQUE, such as:
1. The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
2. The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth.
3. Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.
4. Such was the picturesque costume of the person who rang at the gate, and demanded if it was not at No.
5. The town is just a couple of miles from where Urquhart Castle stands in picturesque ruins beside the loch.
2. The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth.
3. Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.
4. Such was the picturesque costume of the person who rang at the gate, and demanded if it was not at No.
5. The town is just a couple of miles from where Urquhart Castle stands in picturesque ruins beside the loch.
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Meanings and Examples of PICTURESQUE
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picturesque
a. strikingly expressive
a. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 He was unkempt, uncombed, and clad in the same old ruin of rags that had made him picturesque in the days when he was free and happy.
2 This village, constructed in a singular and picturesque manner, half Moorish, half Spanish, still remains, and is inhabited by descendants of the first comers, who speak the language of their fathers.
3 Well, you know he reigned over a rich valley which was overhung by the mountain whence he derived his picturesque name.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
Context Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
4 Luigi wore the very picturesque garb of the Roman peasant at holiday time.
5 I will keep it," returned Morcerf; "but I fear that you will be much disappointed, accustomed as you are to picturesque events and fantastic horizons.
6 She wore the picturesque costume of the Catalan fisherwomen, a red and black bodice, and golden pins in her hair.
7 Such was the picturesque costume of the person who rang at the gate, and demanded if it was not at No.
8 "Beth and I are going over to Kitty Bryant's to get more flowers for tomorrow," added Amy, tying a picturesque hat over her picturesque curls, and enjoying the effect as much as anybody.
9 After this Amy subsided, till a mania for sketching from nature set her to haunting river, field, and wood, for picturesque studies, and sighing for ruins to copy.
10 It was early in the morning, but I didn't regret getting up to see it, for the bay was full of little boats, the shore so picturesque, and a rosy sky overhead.
11 The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
12 It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes.
13 The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth.
14 It was not that she wanted them to be more disinterested; but she would have liked them to be more picturesque.
15 The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
Example Sentence:
1 The town is just a couple of miles from where Urquhart Castle stands in picturesque ruins beside the loch.
2 The centerpiece is a boat ride through an elaborate interactive stage set of picturesque slums and their associated smells, to conjure up an illusion of real Victorian life - and misery.
3 The very word conjures up nostalgic images of solitary brick or wooden towers with vanes set against picturesque fields.
4 It was a pretty town with a picturesque harbour and well-preserved buildings.