Example sentences for: portrait

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

  • At least four other senators were prepared to oppose conviction had their votes been needed--a fact that has been forgotten, maybe, because it doesn't square with the High Noon portrait of Ross as the man of principle facing down the mob.

  • The Los Angeles Times 's top non-California news story is the Michael Jordan travelling call, complete with huge portrait and above-it-all MJ quote, pretty much the standard treatment of the story at all the majors.

  • Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the cover: the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm.

  • Traditionally, most scholars have believed there's only one existing portrait of Jane Austen, a rather unflattering sketch by the novelist's sister.

  • Yet some centuries before there was a boy named Anne : the full-bearded face of Anne de Montmorency 1493-1567, soldier, courtier, Constable of France, gazes from his portrait with supreme aristocratic confidence.


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