personified

Example Sentences

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In forest colors and fuzzy corduroy sweatpants, she was cozy personified — a star that seemed soft to the touch.

From New York Times

They might have lost the player who best personified their defensive philosophy, but they still have their spiritual leader on the sideline.

From Los Angeles Times

As headlines blared the word “alarm,” this woman personified collective fear: What she is suffering, we will suffer; what she has lost, we will lose.

From Washington Post

She personified resilience, a description the International Olympic Committee has often applied to these Summer Games, as they went forward in a time of plague.

From New York Times

Passed on orally over the centuries, they recount how gods and demigods, personified in nature, helped Hawaiian ancestors make their way from other Pacific islands to create their new paradise.

From Washington Post