Example sentences for: portray

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

  • In sum, the effect of such writing is to portray human existence as something vague and complex.

  • The Times calls the speech one of Bradley's strongest efforts yet to portray himself as an outsider and reformer, but also notes that with it, Bradley risks offending many Democrats in that he is mirroring Republican criticisms raised against the Clinton White House fund-raising apparatus a few years back.

  • Although bidders tend to portray themselves as rescuing ailing companies--UPR said it was reacting to "a decade of broken promises and poor performance" at Pennzoil--in fact they almost uniformly bid for profitable, healthy companies that the market, for one reason or another, is undervaluing.

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

  • He's going to reject the whole Washington blame game--undercutting his own party as well as Gore--and portray himself as a man who solves problems instead of complaining about them or blaming them on his enemies.


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