Example sentences for: portrays

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

  • The entrance hall also portrays famous Scots in a beautifully detailed frieze just below the cornice; it’s a veritable “Who’s Who” of the Scottish establishment.

  • I must say that the "" by the anonymous assistant professor portrays the day-to-day stresses and anxieties of academic life through the eyes of a shockingly irresponsible instructor.

  • Bradley portrays himself as a candidate who sees campaign reform as a far more urgent issue than Gore does.

  • The movie portrays the elder Dewey as a crook, regularly taking bribes from Lucky Luciano and other criminals.

  • Former head of the AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland, whom Reich portrays unsympathetically in several private dialogues, protested in a recent letter to Reich: "I did not, in fact, utter the words that you attribute to me in various places, in direct quotation marks, as though you were repeating my words verbatim."


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