Example sentences for: picturesquely

How can you use “picturesquely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • True, there is not much subtlety in calling a gun a cannon , a ship a canoe , or an incompetent prizefighter a canvasback ; but that a canoe inspector is a gynecologist is not immediately obvious, that Cement City might be thought picturesquely oblique for a cemetery, and that chain lightning is certainly as descriptive as rotgut for cheap potent liquor cannot escape anyone's notice.

  • 7.85), the King seems to be hinting rather indelicately to Laertes that Lamord, the Norman horseman, had beefed up a bit, when he picturesquely notes that “..


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