portrait

Example Sentences

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The exhibition’s opening gallery, graced by the artists’ portraits and their diploma paintings for the Royal Academy, sets the stage for the brilliant dialogue that stretched throughout their careers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Or rather the portrait of you that Babci had painted almost eighty-five years ago.

From Literature

“The coolest part of getting a Sardi’s portrait was that I ended up on the same wall as Kermit’s portrait,” Timbers says.

From Los Angeles Times

The screenwriter explains that, for him, the story is "a remarkably tender portrait" of young boys.

From BBC

The photographs on a side table rearranged to make room for Leo’s sixth-grade school portrait.

From Literature