Example sentences for: portraying

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

  • Lee has, says the paper, faced no serious questions about his credentials, but in the past week has become a lightening rod for congressional Republicans and conservative activists, who have taken to portraying him as an unabashed advocate for race preferences

  • The racial discrepancy of this casting choice doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that portraying Edgar Allen Poe as a guy with a high-pitched, breathless voice who has had a ton of plastic surgery would put such a completely different spin on what might have been the psychological issues behind the writing of those scary twisted stories that it just might be impossible to ever really enjoy them again.

  • Clinton did indeed move deftly and systematically to deny Republicans all their familiar means of portraying Democrats as being incorrigibly leftist and outside the mainstream.

  • House prosecutors spent weeks portraying Clinton as Lewinsky's treacherous abuser.

  • Gore Vidal writes a long appreciation of his old friend Clare Booth Luce, portraying her as a tough broad.


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