Example sentences for: portrays

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

  • Maybe the press portrays Yeltsin as a drunken autocrat because that is what he is.

  • The drawing, done by an expedition mate of Sir Walter Raleigh's, portrays the state of native grace that the rest of the chapter ("Encounter, 1492-1600") depicts a falling away from.

  • Their ad portrays Clinton as the candidate who is placing the same petal-plucking little girl--and the nation's children--at risk with his lax drug policies.

  • The film portrays the sentencing, and then a prison visit where Althea weeps, "Our bed is so empty."

  • Local newspapers and the few influential satellite broadcasters-like al Jazeera-often reinforce the jihadist theme that portrays the United States as anti-Muslim.


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