"portray" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

portray verbo

portray + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 61
portray a David Bailey • portray people • portray the character • portray a woman • portray the role • ...
verbo + portray
Kolokacji: 8
seek to portray • try to portray • want to portray • used to portray • begin portraying • ...
portray + preposición
Kolokacji: 26
portrayed by • portray in • portray on • portray with • portray to • ...
portray + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 48
accurately portray • frequently portrayed • originally portrayed • generally portrayed • later portray • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) originally, initially
Kolokacji: 2
(5) commonly, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) unfairly, wrongly, correctly
Kolokacji: 3
(10) clearly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
1. clearly portray = najwyraźniej przedstaw clearly portray
2. explicitly portray = wyraźnie przedstaw explicitly portray
  • It became the first episode in Spooks that explicitly portrays Islamic extremism, which Oyelowo described as a "hot potato" because of this sensitive issue.
  • It is not the only major film portraying explicitly religious figures and practices.
  • They never explicitly portray any of China's current leaders.
  • By explicitly portraying the exhibition as being 'in process', Farmer ensures that "a degree of openness and instability is built in to his work."
  • The Oliver Stone film thriller Savages explicitly portrays a necklacing of a disloyal drug cartel member.
  • The first Indian film to explicitly portray homosexual relations, it was passed by the censors but was condemned by extremist Hindu parties.
  • Matza (1964) explicitly portrayed these kinds of idea as involving a partial return to classicism.
  • This is the only extant ancient text which explicitly portrays Jesus as referring to a wife.
  • The one area in which the original "Shaft" succeeded is that it explicitly portrayed black men as sexual beings in a way they had never been on-screen before.
  • In 1982, she brought, but later dropped, a private prosecution against Howard Brenton's play "The Romans in Britain," which explicitly portrayed sexual acts.
(11) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2

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