Example sentences for: portrait

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

  • In a slide presentation of her work and sources of inspiration, portrait photographer Judy Dater clearly captured with great sensitivity an infinite variety of poignant expressions.

  • From St. Andrew’s Square, it is only a short walk north to Queen Street, where you will find the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on the corner.

  • The brouhaha over this show of young British artists, which appeared at the Royal Academy of Art in London two years ago, began when New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted the exhibit as "sick" because it included, among other things, a portrait of the Virgin Mary splotched with elephant dung.

  • One is left with the somewhat misleading impression of an establishment figure: the artist who plays an artist in Six Degrees of Separation (as Close did), who paints pictures of his celebrity friends, who takes a formal photographic portrait of Bill Clinton (1996, in the catalog).

  • Although Catch-22 received mixed reviews when first published, it eventually sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and "enriched the American lexicon with its title slogan and its new definition of absurdity" (Elaine Woo, the Los Angeles Times ). Heller's seventh novel, Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man , was completed just before his death and will be published next year.


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