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

For most of his life, the Rev. Dr. Norman Kansfield seemed to personify the Reformed Church in America.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 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

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