"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
3. simply portray = po prostu przedstaw simply portray
  • The second type of American cup plates were "Conventionals," or cup plates that simply portrayed the latest in abstract glass design.
  • Despite the shortcomings of the documentary style, last fall's exhibition, "Homeless in America," at the New York Public Library, included pictures that did more than simply portray a tribe of outcasts.
  • Without recourse to labored intellectualizing, B. S. Friedman, a friend and early biographer of Pollock, simply portrays Krasner in all her prickly glory in his introduction to this book.
  • He simply portrays online filesharing as one more technological process.
  • Like his fellow actors, he simply portrays a harried personality, more involved in a series of escapes from detection by the police than in character delineation.
  • Although much of his work was political satire aimed at exposing class injustice, he also produced work simply portraying everyday life, such as his 1939 series of London lithographs.
  • Applications for which WIMP is not well suited include those requiring continuous input signals, showing 3D models, or simply portraying an interaction for which there is no defined standard widget.
  • He simply portrayed the "China of my dreams."
  • Mr. Matshikiza has a full understanding of the tragic dimensions of Macbeth, a facet of the character that is too often lost by those who would portray simply his villainy.
  • It would therefore be wrong to simply portray increased trade openness as a mere lose-lose scenario for EU agriculture.
(7) unfairly, wrongly, correctly
Kolokacji: 3
(10) clearly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2

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