personified

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

In 1969, Bardot came to embody the nation itself after President Charles de Gaulle chose her as a new model for Marianne: a mythical figure that has personified the French Republic since the revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

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

Literally, I take a two-second photograph, and now I’m obstruction personified.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera