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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of portray.

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  • adjective represented graphically by sketch or design or lines

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Examples

  • Mary was shocked and her expression portrayed as much.

    A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

  • Mary was shocked and her expression portrayed as much.

    A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

  • Mary was shocked and her expression portrayed as much.

    A Love So Deep Suzetta Perkins 2007

  • This gambit, a signature feature of the show, can force the audience to viscerally experience the foreignness of the past, and when so used it can be a brilliant dramatic ploy — but only if the action portrayed is as de rigueur as the show suggests.

    Mad About Mad Men 2009

  • The chaos of emotions and thoughts portrayed is just perfect.

    Me and the Devil Blues Books 1 and 2 » Manga Worth Reading 2009

  • This gambit, a signature feature of the show, can force the audience to viscerally experience the foreignness of the past, and when so used it can be a brilliant dramatic ploy — but only if the action portrayed is as de rigueur as the show suggests.

    Mad About Mad Men 2009

  • This gambit, a signature feature of the show, can force the audience to viscerally experience the foreignness of the past, and when so used it can be a brilliant dramatic ploy — but only if the action portrayed is as de rigueur as the show suggests.

    Mad About Mad Men 2009

  • The whole event is portrayed from a point of view dominated by an opinion.

    A Question of Style « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • There has never been a more sinister villain portrayed on film.

    FHM's Interview with Heath Ledger on Playing The Joker « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • The only way our vision of New Moon can be portrayed is if they know how we feel.

    Twilight Lexicon » New Director on the Horizon 2008

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