personified

Example Sentences

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He personified America as the empire of “hope”—a favorite Jackson word.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

But bassist Garry Tallent never smiled that much, and Springsteen’s onstage foil, the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, was never awkward or gangly the way he is portrayed here; the man was elegance personified.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

In other words, he personified the scale of the issue and the depth and breadth of the anger provoked by it – and yet he was let out of prison by accident.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

John Henry may have been powerful, but High John was power personified.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia