Example sentences for: portraits

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

  • Grant for portraits late in the war, Brady was apparently using his knowledge of troop movements to speculate on Wall Street, sending coded messages through intermediaries in New York.

  • Besides the English in the south of France, we get lifestyle portraits of Romanians scraping by on fake passports in Paris, Americans slumming in dirty Madrid, a German soldier returned from prison camp to Berlin; in the later stories, we meet Canadians coping with European strays.

  • Local arts and crafts vary from tacky figurines to pleasant drawings of street scenes and postmodernist portraits.

  • The hagiographic John Kennedy Jr. tribute issue includes excerpts of his writing, portraits of him with his interviewees, and an over-the-top photo of him bathed in golden light.

  • You will find portraits, manuscripts, and personal effects from all three.


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