Example sentences for: portrait

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

  • Also, the angry portrait of Helen shows that, all feminist claims on Stein notwithstanding, she was as capable of misogyny as any man.

  • "It is a pretty portrait, and one can understand how many people (including some gullible American academics) wish it to be an early image of one of our most-loved novelists," wrote Aileen Ribeiro, a disgruntled costume historian.

  • 1: Evita (Hollywood Pictures); Portrait of a Lady (Gramercy); Life of Picasso, Volume 2: 1907-1917 , by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully (Random House); Once Upon a Mattress (The Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway); Hamlet (Columbia); and The Odyssey , by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles (Viking).

  • Male critics cringe at Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady ; female critics call it her masterwork.

  • In the right transept, the Cimabue’s famous portrait of St. Francis, believed to be a close physical resemblance, shows him to the right of the enthroned Madonna.


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