Example sentences for: portrayal

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

  • But the portrayal of the transaction in question is interesting: The clerk is Asian, but the customer is white.)

  • The popular portrayal of bloated plutocrats has changed enormously in the last 150 years, devolving from the 19 th century's ferocious robber barons, to that guy on the Monopoly box who was always chasing his secretary around his desk in New Yorker cartoons, to the addled and ineffectual potbellies of Depression-era screwball comedy.

  • Also, a piece urges the media to cease their negative portrayal of Asian-Americans.

  • It is not known if the play was ever performed, but the portrayal of Murrieta is moving and especially interesting because of all the negative publicity following his capture and death.

  • A personal confession is in order after your vivid portrayal of your normal Breakfast Table routines aboard the F train.


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