How to use "portray" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "portray" in popular movie and book plots

  • Ultimately, Yoshihide asks that he be allowed to portray hell on a screen for the wall of the temple, and Horikawa agrees.  - Portrait of Hell
  • As is the case with virtually all of his works, the author does portray some characters' actions as counter-productive to their own cause.  - Bomber (novel)
  • Through these intertwining tales, Tony Bui is able to portray the struggles of a vanishing culture.  - Three Seasons
  • She reluctantly agrees, as long as Burns insists that the painting portray him as a beautiful man.  - Brush with Greatness
  • Journalist Jackie Bellamy is keen to portray the war as a glorious adventure against an evil foe and cannot understand CH3's cynicism.  - Piece of Cake (novel)
  • The film featured stark scenes of violence between inter-racial gangs, seemingly in order to portray an anti-discrimination sentiment.  - This Rebel Breed
  • He suggests that she could portray the maid, since she was an unexpected addition to the scenario.  - Surviving Christmas
  • Shifting first-person voice-over in a stream of consciousness style is also used to portray thoughts of numerous characters.  - Beach Red
  • However, the game's original intent may have instead been to portray Zircon Jim as Leisure Suit Larry's great-great-great uncle.  - Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
  • When the three men arrive at the rehearsal stage, the actors are seen struggling to understand how they should portray their roles.  - The Rehearsal (play)
  • Contemporary accounts portray Cobham as a good natured but unintelligent man.  - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
  • Meanwhile, Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms, and Ned Nederlander are Hollywood silent film actors who portray the Amigos on screen.  - Three Amigos
  • The OVAs also portray some of the soldiers speaking French.  - Saikano
  • Deborah's three years in the hospital portray mental illness as it is experienced by the patient.  - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel)
  • He tosses a coin to determine the order in which he will portray the other two possible endings, emphasising their equal plausibility.  - The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • It ends with Charlie in a voice-over announcing the script is finished and that he wants Gérard Depardieu to portray him in the film.  - Adaptation (film)

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