How to Use portrait in a Sentence

portrait

noun
  • The book presents a portrait of life in a small town.
  • The queen posed for her portrait.
  • The world looked like a Reynolds portrait that needed a good ...
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
  • But to this day, there is a large portrait of Turner in the lobby.
    Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 25 May 2023
  • Calvin Klein chose a 1980 portrait of Brooke Shields, and Shields chose one of herself.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • By the time the portrait was finished, the scrap of cloth had transformed on the canvas into a diaphanous dress.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • One of the first bits of ink added to his body was a portrait of his mother, Celia, which sits on his left shoulder blade.
    Nasha Smith, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Many of these phones also come with low-light settings and portrait modes.
    Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
  • As the bids flew, DiCaprio’s mom stood up with her phone to film all the rich people fighting over a portrait of her son.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • The walls around the portrait are covered in splendid rivals, but no one bothers.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 2 June 2023
  • There are epic tracks and intimate portraits, a little bit of glam here, some psych-folk there.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In the year the portraits were painted, Jan and Jaapen had acquired the garden next to Rembrandt’s mother in Leiden.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
  • The portrait that emerges from such stories is of a scorned, grifting, raging woman.
    Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In 1635, the year the portraits were painted, the subjects acquired a garden next to that of Rembrandt’s mother in Leiden.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • In the first snap of the restaurant, Kardashian captured a small two-seater table by a wall that featured a portrait of a dog.
    Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The event features a gallery with portraits from the book and a discussion between Poth and trans actress and model Isis King.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
  • The family portraits in the set's side panels at the beginning of each episode are priceless.
    Tanner Stransky, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Scroll through portraits of Ukrainians reflecting on a year of loss, resilience and fear.
    Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • In the portrait, she’s depicted wearing one of her many vibrant hairstyles—in this case blue-green box braids.
    Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a video portrait mode new to this year’s model, too, and standard video recording tops out at a generous 8K / 30p.
    Allison Johnson, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • First the fashion world was shocked, then it was intrigued, and after the line of Karl-alike black suits, portrait tees and L.B.D.s sold out in seconds, a whole new genre and approach was born.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Amid swaying guitar and some tasteful keyboard lines, Lightfoot paints a full portrait of the disaster, singing about the lake, the ship, and its crew.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
  • Claudine Gay with her mother, father, and brother in a portrait.
    Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • Here are portraits of San Diego mothers as seen through Delgado’s lens.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • The painting itself is her portrait, standing in her garden.
    Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Seven out of the nine Supreme Court justices ruled against Warhol’s estate, which argued that the portrait in question should be considered the work of Warhol alone.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2023
  • Yes, the gallery’s forte is portraits of people who inspire, but nothing could be more subjective.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 30 Sep. 2023
  • True crime is a genre that often lives in the black-and-white, but Burden of Proof exists largely in the grey, as a compelling and poignant portrait of the unsolvable mystery of grief.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 June 2023
  • To describe Colonel Anderson as a portrait painter — Thomas Edison was one of his most famous subjects — doesn’t capture the half of it.
    Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Inside this small restaurant, which seats about 25 people, there was reggae and dancehall music playing and several portraits of Bob Marley on the wall.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024

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