How to use portrayal in a sentence

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• The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.From the entry chill
• His stage portrayal of Hamlet was distinctly undercooked.From the entry undercooked
• So it ends up a caricature rather than a depthy portrayal?2014, David A. Ensminger, Mavericks of Sound, page 24. From the entry depthy
• The overall effect is of a derogatory portrayal of vegans and veganism that we interpret as ‘vegaphobia’.2011 March, Matthew Cole, Karen Morgan, “Vegaphobia: derogatory discourses of veganism and the reproduction of speciesism in UK national…. From the entry vegaphobia
• The most offensive portrayal is John O'Meara's tortured Leontes: he milks every line with an unpregnant pause.1999 March 19, Lawrence Bommer, “The Winter's Tale”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry unpregnant
• It breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of women."1985 December 28, Angela Bowen, “Spielberg's Color Purple, Not Walker's”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 6. From the entry flyleaf
• Such dishonest portrayals are why Chicanas are "breaking the silence," as Rita Sánchez calls it.1980, [Juan D.] Bruce-Novoa, “Bernice Zamora”, in Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview, Austin, Tex.; London: University of Texas Press…. From the entry sultry
• It was a graphic portrayal of one of our “evening sisters” making her maiden voyage to London.1917 March 1, The Herald of Gospel Liberty, volume CIX, number 9, page 212 (20). From the entry ancient marineress
• However, a number of people defended the TV groom's portrayal on the Channel Nine show, encouraging him to ignore the negativity.2018 February 25, Caleb Taylor, “'He's just on the show to build his brand and himself': Fans hit out at Married At First Sight groom…. From the entry negative nancy
• Abby says the Milifandom, which started last week, is “a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed”.2015 April 21, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Milifandom soars with Twitter backing for Labour leader Ed Miliband”, in The Guardian. From the entry Milifandom
• The genius of Gervais is to let Brent get too close to reality in his portrayal of management technique.2011, J. Jeremy Wisnewski, The Office and Philosophy: Scenes from the Unexamined Life. From the entry Brentism
• It provoked criticism for its portrayal of a woman who leaves her marriage for life with a solitary traveler.2010, R. Todd Felton, A Journey Into Ireland's Literary Revival, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry traveller
• Certainly the portrayal of Morrison megalosaurids as specialized megasauropod killers is falsified by the shed teeth at Como.2004, Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus, Martin A. Shtigar, Joanna L. Wright, editors, Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from…. From the entry megasauropod
• Through the portrayal of various characters, the playreading becomes a theatre of the group's own making and imagination.2003, Rosalie Hudson, Dementia Nursing: A Guide to Practice, page 257. From the entry playreading
• The first dream development that resulted from reading cards was a shift from ephemeral to more substantial portrayals.1974, Katharine Cover Sabin, ESP and Dream Analysis, Henry Regnery Company, page 17. From the entry ultravivid
• Milei’s allies reject his portrayal as an unbalanced powder keg, although they do not refute claims their leader takes counsel from his cloned mastiffs.2023 November 19, Tom Phillips, “Argentina holds breath as far-right Milei seizes narrow runoff advantage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry mastiff
• The ‘babygirlification’ of the Roy siblings and overabundance of pretentious thought-pieces online is a clear testament to the empathetic portrayal of each character.2023, Genny Sheara, "'Nothing will come of nothing:' A Succession Retrospective [Spoilers]", The Spectator (Seattle University), 31 May 2023. From the entry babygirlification
• Elmo's Fire, and what had been pitched as a typical puff piece quickly warped into a scathing portrayal that soon became scandalous.2019, Bret Easton Ellis, White, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN. From the entry puff piece
• Girls has been widely praised for its realistic portrayal of women in an industry that tends to underwrite and hypersexualise female characters.2015 April 22, Henry Barnes, “Lena Dunham wants to make Girls film when cast hits 40”, in The Guardian. From the entry hypersexualise
• The megahack is widely considered to have been initiated by North Korea, upset at the portrayal of Kim Jong-un in Sony’s then-imminent comedy The Interview.2015 July 10, Graeme Virtue, “Friday’s best TV”, in The Guardian. From the entry megahack
• Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cis­supremacy.2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the…. From the entry cissupremacy
• The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw-jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit.2011 November 21, Peter Travers, “A Dangerous Method”, in Rolling Stone. From the entry jaw-jutting
• His skill renders Becker's portrayal of Prince Grimaldi, a lover and future husband, futile in the wake of Chair (Chuck and Blair).2011, Brionna Jimerson, "'Gossip Girl' conceives unrealistic plotlines, child", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 6 October 2011, page 11. From the entry chair
• The portrayal had some substance, but there was little advantage for the king in vaunting his Welsh connections in London, where Cambrophilia was hardly rampant.2007, John Davies, A History of Wales. From the entry Cambrophilia
• His stiff-as-a-board tranditionally masculine good looks and constrained, stiff-upper lipped portrayal of Ed was a wonderful contrast to Fierstein's androgonous, physically mobile Arnold.1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10. From the entry androgonous
• The student, who describes the 'Milifandom' as 'a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed', started the unlikely cult-following of Miliband in the run-up to the May election.2015 June 25, Sara Malm, Daily Mail. From the entry Milifandom
• We can, however, learn a great deal by examining Greek and later Roman evidence, including artistic portrayals of singers, tibicines, and theatrical performances, and some surviving tibiae.2012, Timothy J. Moore, Music in Roman Comedy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry tibicen
• He was a visionary whose portrayal of the failure of Eros in a hypereroticized climate addressed the modern world and its discontents in a new, intensely poetic cinematic language.2007 August 1, Stephen Holden, “A Chronicler of Alienated Europeans in a Flimsy New World”, in New York Times. From the entry hypereroticized
• The conflicted portrayal of the character reaches its zenith during the sixth episode where Logan’s relationship with his abusive and morally despicable father solidifies his character into the woobie.2006, Afşar Yegin, "Fan-Textual Television: Narrative Structure, Vituality And Fandon In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel And Veronica…. From the entry woobie
• Sean Nelson delivers a disturbing portrayal as Fresh, a tensomething chess wizard (and a hardened drug runner) who is teetering on the edge of a life of crime.1996, TLA Film and Video Guide, 1996-1997, →ISBN. From the entry tensomething
• There are too many disagreeable officers, the food smells too often like garbage, and hypocrites are too hypocrital for the book to be a fair portrayal of life.1923, John Trevena, Seamen's Journal, California State Library, page 19. From the entry overintensity

Meaning of portrayal

1. noun The act of portraying.
2. noun The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.

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Questions about portrayal in a sentence

How do you use portrayal in a sentence?

Portrayal is used as a noun. For example: “The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.”

What is a short sentence with portrayal?

“His stage portrayal of Hamlet was distinctly undercooked.”

What does portrayal mean?

Portrayal means the act of portraying.