Example sentences for: portrayed

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

  • As it happens, Serbia's treatment of the Jews was not as the Serbs have portrayed it.

  • And the more tenuous the Republicans' majority became, the more they resorted to behavior that was easily portrayed as partisan.

  • It is not the child paradise the media has portrayed it to be: Child pornography is rampant, and adolescent suicide is epidemic.

  • Members are portrayed as ascetic and hard-nosed, men you can respect even if you don't agree with them.

  • As a youth, he evidently fantasized about living in London's "swinging" '60s, portrayed in movies as an era when ugly, posturing little guys could routinely make it with long-haired, short-skirted hippie chicks who'd dance ecstatically while the camera zooms in and out.


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