Example sentences for: portrayed

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

  • To thwart this charge, the AMA portrayed HMOs as the true enemy of consumers, implying that doctors were taking on the HMOs in defense of consumers.

  • Democrats persuasively called Livingston's resignation "a surrender to a developing sexual McCarthyism," portrayed Clinton as a fellow victim of this McCarthyism, and argued that Clinton should be spared expulsion as a first step toward ending the madness.

  • Of the 76 doges portrayed here, one is blackened out, Marino Faliero, beheaded for treason in 1355.

  • Fen-Phen was sold not as a mere diet drug but as a treatment for obesity, which Wyeth, the manufacturer, portrayed as a dangerous public health problem [17].

  • 1. "Characters portrayed as suffering from mental illness are depicted as the most dangerous of demographic groups, with 60% shown to be involved in crime or violence (three times the actual rate)."


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