portray

Definition:
1. To show something in a picture; to describe something in a piece of writing.
2. To describe or show sb/sth in a particular way, especially when this does not give a complete or accurate impression of what they are like.

Use 'portray' in a sentence:

• 1. If your characters' personalities are well defined, it will be easy for you as the writer to portray them realistically and believably in any given situation.
• 2. they have run prevalence surveys to portray it as widespread;
• 3. The characters in the novel are all vividly portrayed.
• 4. Now, as for the Democrats, they've been able to use this issue quite effectively to portray the president as insensitive.
• 5. The other early chapters eloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with each other that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.
• 6. What was it like to see someone portray you?
• 7. He frowned and stamped his feet to portray anger.
• 8. The cop was portrayed as a contemptible coward.
• 9. Because of their narrow bandwidth, CF signals portray only the target's presence and, in the case of some bat species, its motion relative to the bat's.
• 10. In Washington, some portray the latest deal as a judicious compromise.
• 11. Such results may seem surprising against the background of shocking incidents that color the way the mass media portray the young.
• 12. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it.
• 13. Ethiopia is trying to portray its withdrawal as a success.
• 14. Arthur himself has been portrayed as a weak cuckold.
• 15. Testimonies portray Tim Kretschmer as lonely and frustrated.
• 16. The world of letters can be portrayed today as a garden with a hundred flowers in bloom.
• 17. It portrays him as cold and uncaring.
• 18. His many novels have portrayed the sufferings of his race.
• 19. It's not that people's profiles are dishonest, says Catalina Toma of Wisconsin-Madison University, "but they portray an idealised version of themselves".
• 20. Both frescoes portray the condottiere as heroic figures riding triumphantly.
• 21. He has worked hard in recent months to portray New York in a better light.
• 22. Among most bitter stories in The Great Divide were those that portrayed the frustrations of the young, who long to enter our shrinking middle class.
• 23. Such comics tend to portray a noirish and Kafkaesque version of the modern world.
• 24. To portray is to honour.
• 25. The novel portrays the growth of a fighter.
• 26. He portrays the psyche as poly-centric.
• 27. In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of 'Camelot'.
• 28. To portray him out of context could make him appear naive and unworldly.
• 29. Her father will be portrayed by Sean Connery.
• 30. Some Tories have said it is demeaning to portray Thatcher's dementia.
• 31. Why does cartoonist Mike Luckovich portray groundhog Phil confessing in front of reporters that he accepted money from the White House?
• 32. Apart from the specific trends highlighted above, which cause some investors to worry, the report portrays an overall optimism borne by the recent healthy real-estate "upcycle" and improving economy.
• 33. The painting portrays him as a ruthless conqueror.
• 34. I don't know if this is a good way to really portray women gamers.
• 35. Lu Xun vividly portrayed the character of ah Q.
• 36. It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.
• 37. Though advocates portray grass-fed products as a win-win situation for all, they do have downsides.
• 38. The image I portray and the example I set becomes tarnished.
• 39. Susan is portrayed as a traditional feminine role in this novel.
• 40. Within this framework, Kennedy has been able to portray African American minds and souls liberated from their connections to the external environment.
• 41. The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard.
• 42. He was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.
• 43. It would be wrong to portray his life as a calculated ascent to power at any cost.
• 44. Portray, or even conceive, of your work as an answer to a puzzle.
• 45. Not only does the GDP mask this erosion, it can actually portray it as an economic gain: an oil spill off a coastal region "adds" to the GDP because it generates commercial activity.
• 46. Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim.
• 47. The persons and events portrayed in this production are fictitious.
• 48. That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.
• 49. This portrays her as wimpy, but she has a very strong character.
• 50. Unfortunately, his idea of bold journalism was a hatchet job, portraying the staff in a negative light.
• 51. She says the programme portrayed her as a 'lady of easy virtue'.
• 52. How can you portray something exactly as it is and at the same time distort it with emotions?
• 53. All too often it is only the negative images of Ireland that are portrayed, colouring opinions and hiding the true nature of the country.
• 54. Students have always been portrayed as a bit of a joke.