personage

Example Sentences

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He continues to use it because he finds that “a fictional personage does exert a slightly disinhibiting effect” on his writing—“always in the service of truth, of course.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Musk’s unrestrained, all-access scourge through the government has led pundits like Nate Silver to compare him to a ‘great man’ of history — that mythic personage whose unhindered agency pushes history forward.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

One day, Lockshin and his classmates marched across the cobblestones of Red Square to Vladimir Lenin’s tomb to pay tribute to the waxy corpse of the country’s most sacred personage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024

Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023

The Latin names of the gods are, of course, used; and the Latin forms in the case of any personage who has a Latin as well as a Greek name.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton