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

Senior voices in government counter that Starmer and Reeves personify the modern Labour Party in government.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

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

To a greater or lesser degree, most members of the reporting team performed similar feats of tedious investigation before finding characters who would personify the statistical trends.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times