Example sentences for: portray

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

  • Although the film doesn't portray AOL-the-corporation in any particular light, it does portray Tom Hanks, scion of another giant communications empire (in this case a Borders/Barnes & Noble-type book superstore chain) as being sweet and misunderstood, even though he puts Meg Ryan's independent bookstore out of business!

  • The first is the familiarity of the world they portray.

  • Former WTO Director-General Renato Ruggiero once called the WTO a "new constitution for a single global economy," and protesters have seized on this somewhat presumptuous self-characterization to portray the WTO as a police state designed by rich nations to facilitate the exploitation of poor ones.

  • The papers also try to portray it as exciting.

  • In the September issue of Commentary , Justus Reid Weiner, a lawyer and scholar in residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, accused Said of lying about his childhood in order to portray himself as a Palestinian refugee, when in fact he grew up in Cairo, Egypt.


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