Example sentences for: portrait

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

  • What worries reviewers is the relentless negativity of the Clinton portrait.

  • The most apt description of Ellis' achievement comes from Rhonda Lieberman in the Village Voice , who says that in this portrait of "post-macho," name-dropping, Prada-clad male models, Ellis "captures a cultural moment of radical dandyhood."

  • It's a convincingly icky portrait, so we're relieved when Self picks Simon up and sends him on a Swiftian journey.

  • The buyer of "Portrait of an Artist Without His Beard" is not known, but the tidy sum represents nearly three times the painting's estimated price and the third-highest amount ever paid for an auctioned artwork.

  • The amazing thing is that Exley's postponement of his great work inspired a great work about postponement, a portrait of the artist as procrastinator.


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