portrait

Example Sentences

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In this forbidding portrait, suffering threatens to outweigh the tantalizing possibility of redemption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He has already hung portraits of himself inside the White House, breaking with the tradition that a president wait until the end of his term to be invited by a successor to unveil a portrait.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Once, it is said, an earl stormed into Holbein’s London workshop demanding that the artist paint his portrait at once.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

It’s a swift portrait, painted with an old, fanned-out brush.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

Instead he will continue living with his aunt Lisa and uncle Morris, who will, only a little begrudgingly, trade in the lumpy couch for a bed, over which your portrait will hang.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman