- present tense form of portray (3rd person singular).
portrays
Example Sentences
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It portrays the young woman in a white gown, seated on a sofa inside a room with red walls adorned with paintings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The film portrays how it began to dawn on her what she had taken on when she entered competitions in the run up to the Games.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The hovering putti Titian portrays seem, like Europa, disoriented by the powers of a primal world in which Zeus is like an untamed force of nature, beyond human control or understanding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Tom Berenger plays a married Queens cop assigned to protect wealthy Manhattan murder witness Mimi Rogers, while a pre-”Sopranos” Lorraine Bracco portrays the wife he leaves waiting at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Objects he’s got, color he’s learning, but he's still feeling dissatisfied with the way he portrays the human figure.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
