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

They personify intangibles that sabermetrics can never quantify and that fans yearn to encounter: Hope.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024

Finding equivalent candidates who can personify outrage about the Middle East with the longevity, potency and profile of Mr Galloway will be very difficult indeed.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2024

Of one starved survivor who wept before him, Kissinger reflected: “Human dignity, objective values have stopped at this barbed wire”—but “as long as conscience exists as a conception in this world you will personify it.”

From Slate • Nov. 30, 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