personage

Example Sentences

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Stanton is a huge and consequential personage in American history, but she has dwindled in the eyes of posterity to become a subordinate of Anthony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 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

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023

“She is of a generation that went through that process, and she was an unusual personage in that generation.”

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023

So the first real hero of the atomic age, if not the first personage on the scene, was Ernest Rutherford.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson