How to Use portray in a Sentence

portray

verb

• The painting portrays the queen in a purple robe.
• The lawyer portrayed his client as a victim of child abuse.
• He portrayed himself as a victim.
• The White House has portrayed the President as deeply conflicted over the matter.
• Laurence Olivier portrayed Hamlet beautifully.
• The dog also portrayed Skip in the 2000 film, My Dog Skip.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
• What were the origins of this idea of portraying Pinochet as a vampire?
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
• Blue is for Krishna, a Hindu god portrayed with blue skin.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• The landscapes portray ideas as much as places, and high-tech fact as much as fiction.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• Woody Guthrie will also be portrayed in the movie, though the actor cast for the role has not yet been announced.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2023
• Among this cast of suspects is Loretta Durkin, portrayed by Meryl Streep.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• The actress portrayed Professor Pomona Sprout in the film franchise.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024
• John Belushi used to play him back in the day, with Darrell Hammond portraying the author in a play a few years back.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2024
• The story, which reads as a simple recitation of the facts, portrays the decision to use the bomb as one made with sagacious care.
  — Andy Kifer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2023
• But videos, photos and survivors have portrayed many attacks across the region.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The Euphoria star portrays the rock 'n' roll icon in the new Sofia Coppola film Priscilla.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• Its news release tried to portray the sense of over-the-top optimism while those affected viewed it with end-of-the-world pessimism.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Nell Sutton from Wales, also blind, portrays young Marie in the 1934 flashback sequences.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• More than two decades later, in 1995, the cartoonist Seymour Chwast portrayed a man shaving with a gas mask on his face.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Yang said that even when movies or TV shows had Asian characters, they would be portrayed by white actors in makeup.
  — Matt Cullinan, ABC News, 26 May 2023
• Actor David McCallum, who portrayed the role, died in September at the age of 90.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
• Tom has also been portrayed over the years by Dennis Hopper and Barry Pepper.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• The Israeli soldiers at Al-Shifa on Sunday portrayed the raid as a success.
  — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• In the early aughts, the up-and-coming starlets were pitted against each other in the media, often portrayed as rivals.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• The real Montgomery portrays Billy Hargrove on the Netflix hit.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2023
• In 1996, he was cast to portray Cassadine for the serial, kicking off his soap-star career.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Which is very embedded in the story of this movie — Gracie and Joe’s life has been completely changed by being portrayed.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Most of the other people portrayed in the film are impelled by fear, deprivation and love of family.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Both Iran and Pakistan have for years portrayed the insurgencies in the border region as at least in part rooted abroad.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• But the land itself—the cause of all this turmoil—is equally as integral to the story as these real-life figures portrayed onscreen.
  — Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024