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
• The world is not as dangerous as the U.S. news portrays it to be.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
• The chance to portray the spouse of the first Black naval aviator was a unique one for her as well.
  — Brande Victorian, Essence, 23 Nov. 2022
• Cypress, Ricci, Lewis and Lynskey portray the adult versions of the girls in the show.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Apr. 2022
• What were the origins of this idea of portraying Pinochet as a vampire?
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
• Hudson was chosen by Franklin to portray her in the bio-pic.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2022
• Blue is for Krishna, a Hindu god portrayed with blue skin.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• The first half, marked with a red X, portrays Quill dancing and letting loose.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 16 Aug. 2024
• 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
• There are a multitude of ways that the steps might be devised and portrayed.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• So this anger kind of fed me to portray this character.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• The Joint List, outraged, worked to portray him as a shill for Netanyahu, and the strategy seemed to work.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• In the book, these images are hidden on the flip sides of pages that portray an eight-year-old, Elif, on her first day of school.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• As for how the show will portray the end of Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s relationship?
  — Vulture, 18 Oct. 2022
• Your monarch doesn’t portray power in the same way that a queen from another realm might.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2022
• Avari also noted that one of the 13 vignettes portrays a standing farmer—the only male figure in the in the piece.
  — Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 19 Mar. 2025
• Among this cast of suspects is Loretta Durkin, portrayed by Meryl Streep.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• Just west of Calgary is Canmore, a town that was used to portray Jackson, Wyoming.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 26 Jan. 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 Bible does portray women rulers in a positive light.
  — Adam M. Carrington, National Review, 20 Mar. 2022
• But many try to portray Iran’s hatred of Israel as some kind of thousand-year-old blood feud.
  — Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
• When not painting biblical scenes and images of saints, these artists were portraying the rich and powerful.
  — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
• The panel presented an animation that portrayed the progression of both aircraft before the collision.
  — Ben Mause, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2025