portrait
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The portrait of America’s fiercest young male gamblers isn’t entirely different.
From MarketWatch
West End Girl is a savage and startlingly detailed portrait of a marriage being torn apart.
From BBC
The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
More somber is the 1964 scene in “Philadelphia,” of a row house door whose window displays a portrait of John F. Kennedy, assassinated just a year before.
It comes a day after the Prince and Princess of Wales released a new family portrait which featured on their Christmas card this year.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
