personify

Example Sentences

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Or do these émigrés personify a loss of faith in America’s future and way of life?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Shows like Auction Hunters, Storage Hunters, and Storage Wars began to personify the old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”—except with objects of value, monetary or sentimental, on the line.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2024

Those who seek to govern us seek too to attempt to personify – however imperfectly – the country they seek to lead.

From BBC • May 28, 2024

Some early depictions show voladores dressed as birds, perhaps to personify gods.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

It was an even more obvious metaphor for Christians, as it was easy to think of God as a legislator imposing laws on nature and to personify nature as obeying him.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton