Example sentences for: portraits

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

  • I would like to have seen a few more of Tiepolo's portraits (the greatest of which, depicting a Venetian naval hero with a mutilated hand, could not leave Venice), and not quite so many sketches for ceilings.

  • A whole poetry of the ordinary came out of such images, from Walker Evans' frontal portraits of sharecroppers' beds to Jasper Johns' deadpan brace of ale cans.

  • Many of those portraits, over a third of Degas' total photographic output, were of the Halévy family.

  • But proving them wrong are the conservatives at the American Enterprise Institute, which commissioned three historical portraits by Minnesota artist Mark Balma, to be unveiled next month at an AEI reception in the Cannon House Office Building.

  • Rosenbaum's purpose: to show how portraits of Hitler reflect broader cultural assumptions.


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