Portray can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| portray - make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" | ||
| portray - represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting" | ||
| portray - portray in words; "The book portrays the actor as a selfish person" | ||
| portray - assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man" |
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| 1. | verb | Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba. | |
| 2. | verb | Shinichirō Watanabe once considered making an anime about Christopher Columbus, but came to the conclusion that not even anime was expressive enough to properly portray the surreal greatness of Columbus's exploits. | |
| 3. | verb | In this film they both portray notorious gang leaders. | |
| 4. | verb | I still can't work out what the artist intended to portray. | |
| 5. | verb | Unfortunately, the Internet gives extremists and intolerants of all persuasions an equal opportunity to portray wrongful and dangerous views. | |
| 6. | verb | Sami liked to portray himself as an innocent victim. | |
| 7. | verb | Sami still likes to portray himself as an innocent victim. | |
| 8. | verb | The separatists are trying to portray Kabyles as an "endangered and persecuted ethnic minority" that needs to seek "independence" from a so-called "Algerian colonial regime." In fact, there are millions of Kabyles in Algeria; they live in every single part of the country; they are perfectly integrated at every level of the Algerian society; they are free to go, work, and live everywhere in Algreria; they intermarry with people from all over Algeria; they massively reject any separatist plans to divide Algeria and their parents and grandparents played a central role in the rise of Algerian nationalism and the liberation of Algeria. |
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| Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba. |
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| Shinichirō Watanabe once considered making an anime about Christopher Columbus, but came to the conclusion that not even anime was expressive enough to properly portray the surreal greatness of Columbus's exploits. | |
| In this film they both portray notorious gang leaders. | |
| I still can't work out what the artist intended to portray. | |
| Unfortunately, the Internet gives extremists and intolerants of all persuasions an equal opportunity to portray wrongful and dangerous views. | |
| Sami liked to portray himself as an innocent victim. | |
| Sami still likes to portray himself as an innocent victim. | |
| The separatists are trying to portray Kabyles as an "endangered and persecuted ethnic minority" that needs to seek "independence" from a so-called "Algerian colonial regime." In fact, there are millions of Kabyles in Algeria; they live in every single part of the country; they are perfectly integrated at every level of the Algerian society; they are free to go, work, and live everywhere in Algreria; they intermarry with people from all over Algeria; they massively reject any separatist plans to divide Algeria and their parents and grandparents played a central role in the rise of Algerian nationalism and the liberation of Algeria. | |