Example sentences for: portraying

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

  • Nearly 30 years ago, Allen wrote a brilliant short story about a man who goes to the hospital to visit a dying acquaintance and then returns on a daily basis, portraying himself as a saint, because he has the hots for the attending nurse.

  • In portraying Washington this way, those in the movie business are depicting their political culture, not ours.

  • Another deeply devout and religious film, Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptaion of Christ (1988), was furiously attacked for portraying Jesus as lost and uncertain--plagued by doubts.

  • Microsoft, Boeing, Weyerhaeuser, labor, and virtually every editorial page in the state opposed I-695, portraying it in hyperbolic, apocalyptic colors.

  • The movingly simple Peace Memorial Museum documents the horror with charts, models, photographs, videos, everyday objects transformed by the unimaginable heat of the blast, and a life-sized diorama portraying horribly burned victims.


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