Example sentences for: personification

How can you use “personification” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We know them to be the artificial personification of a particular set of values--cut taxes for the rich, roll back the civil rights movement, build an anti-missile system.

  • The cover story, adapted from Michael Lewis' forthcoming The New New Thing , depicts Jim Clark as the personification of Silicon Valley's spirit of relentless reinvention.

  • Perhaps the president could say it to Meg Ryan, her generation's Doris Day, the personification of national virtue.

  • Even though he is the personification of the company, an inside WP story observes that defense lawyers might have viewed him as so "prickly and combustible" as to undermine his own case.

  • The lesson learned is that one must not disobey one’s parents, for the handsome man is known to be the devil and the personification of evil.


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