Example sentences for: portrays

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

  • The film portrays the fervent opponent of the civil rights movement as a thoroughgoing bigot.

  • ” Or, in Nicholas Nickleby (Chapter XLVII), where that admirable novelist graphically portrays how old Arthur Gride “again raised his hands, again chuckled, and again ejaculated.”

  • --includes a "Linda Tripp" section, which attacks Linda in no uncertain terms but also portrays Monica as a dupe:

  • In this new introduction, Reich again portrays his variances with reality as mere memory slips.

  • Her lips as vivid as the plumage of the vermilion flycatcher, Monica Lewinsky returns this week to the covers of the Star and the National Enquirer . In a detailed account of her White House trysts, the Star portrays Lewinsky as a sort of Jewish Salome, arousing the president with her dance of the Gap dress, only to hand the independent counsel the head of Bill the Southern Baptist.


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