Example sentences for: portrays

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

  • This roman-à-clef by writer John McPhee's daughter portrays him as ridiculously irresponsible.

  • A profile of Jason McCabe Calacanis portrays the founder of the Silicon Alley Reporter as the Walter Winchell of the Internet age.

  • Room 7: Lorenzo Lotto, troubled loner among Venice’s 16th-century artists, portrays a Gentleman in his Study with subtle, somber psychology.

  • ” 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.”

  • 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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