PORTRAIT in a Sentence
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160 example sentences for PORTRAIT, such as:
1. It is the finest portrait of modern times.
2. The three portraits are remarkably similar.
3. His self portraits are perhaps the most stunning.
4. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me.
5. He knew that when he was alone he would have to examine the portrait.
2. The three portraits are remarkably similar.
3. His self portraits are perhaps the most stunning.
4. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me.
5. He knew that when he was alone he would have to examine the portrait.
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Meanings and Examples of PORTRAIT
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portrait
n. a word picture of a person's appearance and character
n. any likeness of a person, in any medium
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1 He pointed to the portrait of his grandfather on the wall to his right.
2 Thus I was left at last with a slim packet of letters and the girl's portrait.
3 I concluded I would go and give her back her portrait and those letters myself.
4 Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
5 "Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don't want a life-sized portrait of myself," answered the lad, swinging round on the music-stool in a wilful, petulant manner.
6 It is the finest portrait of modern times.
7 I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me.
8 Yes; he would try to be to Dorian Gray what, without knowing it, the lad was to the painter who had fashioned the wonderful portrait.
9 Your portrait of him has quickened his appreciation of the personal appearance of other people.
10 As he was turning the handle of the door, his eye fell upon the portrait Basil Hallward had painted of him.
11 But the strange expression that he had noticed in the face of the portrait seemed to linger there, to be more intensified even.
12 He got up from his chair and drew a large screen right in front of the portrait, shuddering as he glanced at it.
13 Suddenly his eye fell on the screen that he had placed in front of the portrait, and he started.
14 He knew that when he was alone he would have to examine the portrait.
15 As he often remembered afterwards, and always with no small wonder, he found himself at first gazing at the portrait with a feeling of almost scientific interest.
Example Sentence:
1 She's commissioned an artist to paint her portrait/paint a portrait of her.
2 He is an artist, just as surely as Rembrandt or any other first-rate portrait painter is one.
3 I was allowed to view his family collection of portrait of miniatures.
4 The pensive lover gazed at the portrait of his beloved and deeply sighed.
5 Are we safe to assume that this portrait is of the same scene we've seen in that picture?
6 His self portraits are perhaps the most stunning.
7 A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls.
8 The three portraits are remarkably similar.