personage

Example Sentences

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These personages are broadly sketched, but they needn’t be played quite so cartoonishly.

From Los Angeles Times

Nesbit and Beattie alone are still with us, but it seems like only six months ago, to me at least, when all these personages were striding the planet.

From New York Times

As the O.G. commie Karl Marx famously observed, "all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. The first time as tragedy, the second as farce."

From Salon

Another obit is devoted to Eileen Fox, a former bohemian who was a well-known personage — plump, untidy and always carrying plastic bags full of her things — on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue.

From New York Times

But foreign governments, political parties and "friendly personages" will not be invited to send delegations or representatives to China to attend the mourning activities, the official Xinhua news agency said.

From Reuters