portray
Example Sentences
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With such vividly realized characters, the Coens portray a truth far larger than the crimes they purport to retell.
From Salon
Skating through a short program about a warrior and his self-narrated free program that portrays his personal struggles to progress in the sport, Malinin doesn’t tell stories with only his famous jumps.
From Los Angeles Times
Eager to protect their own profession, male practitioners—from physicians to male midwives—portrayed women as ignorant and sure to do harm or, conversely, possessed of “dangerous” knowledge.
In April 2019, Epstein told Bannon that Christians he had met with were troubled that the media was portraying him as “beyond redemption.”
Even better, he has used his beauty not to become a matinee idol but to unsettle and surprise us, portraying characters whose handsomeness is very much the point but not the whole story.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
