Portrayed
[pɔ:'treid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Portray
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Examples
- Pericles was portrayed in a helmet; a helmet became him, and it is to be feared he knew as much. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In 1844 Thomas Hood wrote and published his famous Song of the Shirt, in which the drudgery of the needle is portrayed with pathetic fidelity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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