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Example sentences for: portraying

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

He said he thought the committee had made the right decision in handing the previous two debates to John McCain and in portraying George W. Bush as the new Dan Quayle.
Go to work on can of course be interpreted idiomatically as attack, but the presentation also hinted wittily at the literal sense of the phrase by portraying a man pedaling to work on a cycle with a single egg-shaped wheel.
There's even a special section ("Making the Most of It") devoted to the poor, portraying struggling-but-content families, living in a $30-a-month Tennessee mountain shack and in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Sculptors excelled in portraying lifelike human, animal, and religious figures.
In the puns we have been looking at, the writer may revive and extend a metaphor (portraying the teachers as a small embattled force, but making them blue with cold, as well) while at the same time changing the form of the expression.