Example sentences for: portraits

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

  • In the 19th-century section, look for the imposing, if rather severe, classical portraits of Antoine-Sébastien Plamondon (1802–1895) and the markedly gentler works of his Québécois student and rival Théophile Hamel (1817–1870).

  • The portraits also launched Rodchenko's photographic career, which, with typical flair, fell effortlessly into the main currents of European Modernism.

  • Times reporters have (according to a report in today's Washington Post ) lately been taping photocopied portraits of Chandler to newsroom walls, in silent protest against what's being done to his legacy.

  • What they ruled out were portraits of people, especially portraits of leaders.

  • The most interesting recent portraits of JFK--Richard Reeves' masterly President Kennedy: Profile of Power and Nigel Hamilton's flawed JFK, Reckless Youth --confront the dualities in his character.


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