Example sentences for: portrayal

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

  • .. of the dichotomy in Boswell's portrayal of his subject.

  • True, if this "Hugh Grant-y" type's acid remarks toward the press were due to having been caught wearing his pants in "Hugh Grant-y" fashion, Plotz's portrayal of Charles Spencer as just another hypocritical, bratty royal would have resonance.

  • Von Menzel’s Eisenwalzwerk (The Iron Foundry, 1875) is a striking portrayal of industrial labor, and Oskar Kokoschka’s painting, Pariser Platz (1926), recalls the bustle around the Brandenburg Gate during the twenties.

  • Chatterbox figured Dr. Seltzer would be flattered to be described in the book as handsome, and even more flattered by the hunky portrayal of him in the movie by an actor named Hart Bochner.

  • (Click for more on Kennedy's warped portrayal of Ross and the impeachment.)


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