Example sentences for: portrayed

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

  • As a piece of cinema music, Celebrity is limpid and graceful, and Sven Nykvist's black-and-white photography gives the images a luster that's often exhilaratingly at odds with the degeneracy being portrayed.

  • ) Instead of calming jittery investors, the two mandated breaks induced more panic, and were portrayed by the electronic press as evidence of a major crash.

  • All kinds of things have been portrayed in movies, but unless their connection to real events is shown, they're not news.

  • Bronfman, whom some consider the "Jewish pope," is portrayed as a relentless crusader who single-handedly "unhinged" Switzerland.

  • Ronald is portrayed (against type) as tough and competent: At one private summit meeting, he looked at Mikhail Gorbachev and said, "I just want to let you know, there's no way you're going to win."


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