How to use portrait in a sentence

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• His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived.From the entry candid
• The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver.From the entry refined
• Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.From the entry slapdash
• The portraits on the wall aren’t that good, but they’re just sorta cool to have around.From the entry sorta
• He didn’t manage to authenticate the portrait: it’s probably a fake.From the entry authenticate
• Botticelli's “Portrait of a Young Man” is his only known en face portrait.From the entry en face
• His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.From the entry grace
• The photographer let us pick a background for the portrait.From the entry background
• He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.From the entry truthful
• The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.From the entry sitting
• The novel was frontispieced with a portrait of the author.From the entry frontispiece
• Telle is more the portrait of avuncular Norwegian affability than a would-be climate warrior.2026 May 15, Mark Sappenfield, “Even Norway is facing an energy crunch. It is hunting for solutions.”, in The Christian Science Monitor…. From the entry avuncular
• Corbett’s ceramics, as well as their portraits, and blankets designed as part of the collaboration.2021 May 4, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times. From the entry ceramic
• She vamps this month on the cover of British Vogue, a portrait of artfully crafted provocation.2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry vamp
• Prior to the photoceramic portrait, miniature paintings were all the rage.2021 February 2, Brynn, “What Are Photoceramic Portraits?”, in Coyle Studios. From the entry photoceramic
• "I also painted a massive portrait of Allan Donald for GCSE art," she said.2016 April 18, Emma John, “Confessions of a teenage cricket fan: share your memorabilia”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on…. From the entry homework diary
• His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits.2015, Nick Davies, chapter 3, in Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature (paperback), London: Bloomsbury, page 53. From the entry jizz
• As soon as I feel somewhat up to it, I hope to do his portrait.2012, Vincent Van Gogh, Masters of Art - Vincent Van Gogh (Illustrated), Delphi Classics. From the entry up to
• In Evelina, memory produces matriarchal resemblance; other Gothic novels artifactualize it in portraits.2012, Kamilla Elliott, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction, page 134. From the entry artifactualize
• In her wedding portrait, Mary Tudor wears a nimbus-shaped French hood with her square-necked gown.2011, Alison Weir, Henry VIII: King and Court, page 186. From the entry French hood
• Cyd stared at the painted portrait of Mercades that she painted on her first birthday.2010, Alexis Allee, I Don't Love You, →ISBN. From the entry Cyd
• The lower sketch proposes the idea of the studio and the easeled portrait.2010, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Katja Zelljadt, Getty Research Journal, number 2, page 31. From the entry easeled
• Hasidim also demonstrated discomfort with the lengthy sittings that a life portrait necessarily entailed.2010, Maya Balakirsky Katz, The Visual Culture of Chabad, page 21. From the entry rebbishe
• Austria boasts the Mozart ball, a marzipan-filled chocolate ball wrapped in a portrait of the composer.2009, Tim Richardson, Sweets: A History of Candy, page 374. From the entry bombe
• We are stopped in front of a portrait of a woman.2008, Saleema Nawaz, Mother Superior: Stories, Freehand Books, →ISBN. From the entry hypergreen
• It seems the portrait has painted the artist, sketching the reverser, who has become the reverse-ed.2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman). From the entry Confucius
• Ovelman is the subject of the portraits here, but they are all by nonartists.2007 February 3, Holland Cotter, “To Explore Race, Sometimes You Focus on the Explorer”, in New York Times. From the entry nonartist
• She removed the half-finished portrait on the easel and replaced it with a blank canvas.2004, Sidney Sheldon, chapter 1, in Are You Afraid of the Dark?, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry atelier
• He abhors his decaying portrait, which pitilessly shows him the way of all flesh.2004, Elana Gomel, “Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the (Un)Death of the Author”, in Narrative, volume 12, number 1, page 84. From the entry way of all flesh
• Stone evokes these typologies most disturbingly in his homofascist portrait of J.2004, Susan E. Linville, History Films, Women, and Freud's Uncanny, page 82. From the entry homofascist
• Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.2003, Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry dancing
• There's a little of each in "Julien Donkey-Boy," a visually arresting, dramatically blurry portrait of a schizophrenic.2001, New York Times Theater Reviews, The New York Times Film Reviews, 1999-2000, page 146. From the entry arresting
• Visually, there seemed nothing wrong with this Rockwellish slice of Americana in scaping portrait.1995, Scott Elly Sprecher, Alms for Jude, page 320. From the entry Rockwellish
• Here we encounter a portrait of The Rebel as Quixotic idealist.1989, John Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St. George’ Orwell, page 122. From the entry quixotic
• Sun's portrait never hung among the great ones up on the wall at Tienanmen.1985, Harold R. Isaacs, Re-encounters in China, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70. From the entry Tienanmen
• For landscapes, still lifes, portraits and the like, you'll want an aperture-priority camera.1978 October, “One of these cameras was made just for you”, in Penthouse, retrieved 25 Feb 2014, page 22. From the entry aperture priority
• One of the first portraits of the King to show him in Polish costume (jupan and delia).1976, Jerzy Banach, editor, Cracow, City of Museums: The Most Beautiful Works of Art from Seven Museums (Great Centers of Art), Warsaw…. From the entry delia
• "You know what sort of portrait we want?" "Captain of Industry?" Roger said sneeringly.1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 57. From the entry sneeringly

Meaning of portrait

1. noun A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
2. noun An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
3. noun A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

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Questions about portrait in a sentence

How do you use portrait in a sentence?

Portrait is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.”

What is a short sentence with portrait?

“a portrait bust; a portrait statue”

What does portrait mean?

Portrait means a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.