portray
Example Sentences
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For “The Tail,” Kent portrays a whale’s flukes above a mild sea.
The friar, writes Mr. Restall, portrayed Columbus as “a flawed but heroic agent of God.”
When he was 11, he began portraying Will Byers, the baby-faced boy who was abducted while biking home at night from a friend’s house and pulled into an alternate dimension known as the Upside Down.
From Los Angeles Times
In what was portrayed as a counter-balance, the legislation brought about another crucial change.
From BBC
However, his groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks remained for many his greatest work - portraying an idyllic American small town encroached by a chaotic unconscious world.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
