Example sentences for: portraits

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

  • His portraits are so uncompromising they make Picasso's or Giacometti's look polite.

  • They could afford to disdain commissions for portraits and to paint, instead, the class tensions of Paris--predatory males and streetwalking women.

  • Gorney will probably be praised for having drawn unusually nuanced portraits of abortion activists on both sides--humanizing them and in so doing narrowing the gap between them.

  • The mansion boasts not only Empire furniture but also a remarkable collection of Napoleonic memorabilia: busts, portraits, and even his pistol, hat, and death mask from St. Helena.

  • There is remarkable continuity among Avedon's celebrity portraits, his fashion layouts, and documentary work such as the pictures of Sicilian street children and Louisiana mental patients he took in the 1950s.


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