Sentence for portraits | Use portraits in a sentence

A sentence using the word portraits. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use portraits in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for portraits.

• She paints portraits to amuse herself. (10)
• You will see other portraits of her in the house. (10)
• The portraits themselves seemed to be staring in astonishment. (4)
• Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Phillips be placed in the gallery at Pemberley. (4)
• I remembered having noticed a similarity of feature in some of the portraits in the different rooms. (10)
• I have to assure you respectfully, sir, that family portraits are sacred things with the sons of gentlemen. (10)
• In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger. (4)
• After thus stating to you the vast pretensions of the ladies of Brookfield, it would be unfair to sketch their portraits. (10)
• Vernon turned from the portraits to a stuffed pike in a glass case, and plunged into sympathy with the fish for a refuge. (10)
• It was absurd for him to paint portraits for pay, and ridiculous to paint them for nothing; so he did not paint them at all. (9)
• She achieved a novelty by this treatment of the portraits, and she achieved a novelty in the tone she took with the wretched queen. (9)
• His exhibition of his enemy Lord Dannisburgh, is of the class of noble portraits we see swinging over inn-portals, grossly unlike in likeness. (10)
• Arms, emblems, colours, liveries, portraits of princes and princesses of the House, of this the warrior, that the seductress, burst into sudden light. (10)
• At the round table in a dining-room, all black oak, with many candles, and terrible portraits of departed ancestors, Anna sat between the magistrate and Gordy. (8)

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