How to Use portrait in a Sentence

portrait

noun

• The book presents a portrait of life in a small town.
• The queen posed for her portrait.
• The world looked like a Reynolds portrait that needed a good ...
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
• But to this day, there is a large portrait of Turner in the lobby.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 25 May 2023
• Calvin Klein chose a 1980 portrait of Brooke Shields, and Shields chose one of herself.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• By the time the portrait was finished, the scrap of cloth had transformed on the canvas into a diaphanous dress.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• One of the first bits of ink added to his body was a portrait of his mother, Celia, which sits on his left shoulder blade.
  — Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
• Many of these phones also come with low-light settings and portrait modes.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
• As the bids flew, DiCaprio’s mom stood up with her phone to film all the rich people fighting over a portrait of her son.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 26 May 2023
• The walls around the portrait are covered in splendid rivals, but no one bothers.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 June 2023
• There are epic tracks and intimate portraits, a little bit of glam here, some psych-folk there.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
• In the year the portraits were painted, Jan and Jaapen had acquired the garden next to Rembrandt’s mother in Leiden.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
• The portrait that emerges from such stories is of a scorned, grifting, raging woman.
  — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• In 1635, the year the portraits were painted, the subjects acquired a garden next to that of Rembrandt’s mother in Leiden.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 May 2023
• In the first snap of the restaurant, Kardashian captured a small two-seater table by a wall that featured a portrait of a dog.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
• The event features a gallery with portraits from the book and a discussion between Poth and trans actress and model Isis King.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• The family portraits in the set's side panels at the beginning of each episode are priceless.
  — Tanner Stransky, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2024
• Scroll through portraits of Ukrainians reflecting on a year of loss, resilience and fear.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• In the portrait, she’s depicted wearing one of her many vibrant hairstyles—in this case blue-green box braids.
  — Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
• There’s a video portrait mode new to this year’s model, too, and standard video recording tops out at a generous 8K / 30p.
  — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 2 May 2023
• First the fashion world was shocked, then it was intrigued, and after the line of Karl-alike black suits, portrait tees and L.B.D.s sold out in seconds, a whole new genre and approach was born.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• Amid swaying guitar and some tasteful keyboard lines, Lightfoot paints a full portrait of the disaster, singing about the lake, the ship, and its crew.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
• Claudine Gay with her mother, father, and brother in a portrait.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• Here are portraits of San Diego mothers as seen through Delgado’s lens.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
• The painting itself is her portrait, standing in her garden.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• Seven out of the nine Supreme Court justices ruled against Warhol’s estate, which argued that the portrait in question should be considered the work of Warhol alone.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2023
• Yes, the gallery’s forte is portraits of people who inspire, but nothing could be more subjective.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 30 Sep. 2023
• True crime is a genre that often lives in the black-and-white, but Burden of Proof exists largely in the grey, as a compelling and poignant portrait of the unsolvable mystery of grief.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 June 2023
• To describe Colonel Anderson as a portrait painter — Thomas Edison was one of his most famous subjects — doesn’t capture the half of it.
  — Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• If the keyboard won’t turn sideways, your phone is locked in portrait orientation.
  — Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024