Example sentences for: portrait

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

  • It might be argued that Wolfe's portrait of the middle's muddle will be shocking only to a rarified and dogmatic crew of ideologues.

  • The northern European rooms include a splendid Portrait of His Father (1490) by Albrecht Dürer; Adam and Eve (1528) by Lucas Cranach; Richard Southwell by Hans Holbein; and a moving Mater Dolorosa by Joos van Cleve.

  • You can see his pervasive influence on Milanese artists in the decorative paintings of Bernardino Luini and a fine Portrait of a Young Woman by Ambrogio de Predis.

  • The NYT picks up today on a story first reported by the South China Morning Post : Apple Computer, in bringing to Hong Kong its "Think Different" ads featuring pictures of famous independent movers and shakers, has decided to drop the Dalai Lama's portrait from the campaign.

  • And on the subject of George W., did he, I wonder, watch John McNaughton's film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer before commuting Henry Lee Lucas' death sentence?


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