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

Watching Alcaraz is, for the most part, like watching sunshine personified.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

The late P-22 — a celebrity mountain lion that inhabited Griffith Park – personified the tribulations facing his kind.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 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

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

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