Example Sentences

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In legal filings, Justice portrays the Rowlings as rivals trying to “pilfer one of West Virginia’s crown jewels.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Calva portrays Oscar, a therapist who winds up romantically involved with Firstman’s character, a gay man who learns he fathered a son and now must take care of him.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Robert Pattinson portrays the cruel and arrogant antagonist Antinous, who has own eyes fixed firmly on the queen while her husband is still away.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Tanaka herself delightfully portrays the slightly dim family maid the “kids” enlist for their scheme.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

“The Raft of the Medusa” portrays victims of a shipwreck, adrift on the sea without food or water, at the moment they signal to a distant ship.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell