portrait
Example Sentences
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And it really is just a portrait of a life.
From Los Angeles Times
The last time the portrait was out on loan was in 2023 for a less exotic trip to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
From Barron's
They posted appeals for information along with portraits of the people, mostly teenage, they hoped would be found alive.
He stresses that Columbus was “no saint” and concedes that his portrait of the man can seem “unsympathetic.”
He left behind a seminal 37-volume encyclopedia, the “Natural History,” and the surviving letters of his nephew paint a colorful portrait of a workaholic who rarely slept.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
