Example sentences for: portray

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

  • These works have none of the finger-painting naiveté of kids' art that you might expect (though two of them portray Close's young daughters).

  • Democrats, with equal chutzpah, will portray anything less as a Democratic victory.

  • A last ditch defense effort to portray MaîtreCrèche as a peasant ignorant of France's tough laws on the use of such expressions backfired when the prosecution unveiled a book found in the defendant's office entitled 108 Franglaish Expressions That Can Get You Put in Jail If You Use Them In This Country.

  • Los mesoneros, those who portray the innkeepers, keep refusing them lodging.

  • The old mess hall is now the “Little Chapel on the Square,” where the stained-glass windows portray not saints but Mounties, notably a reveille bugler and guard in mourning.


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