Example sentences for: personage

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

  • The novel itself, Roth's fulmination against American innocence, is mostly a portrait of a single personage, a New Jersey ladies'-glove manufacturer named Seymour Levov, "the Swede"--a husband and father of exasperating conventionality, serene, handsome, athletic, bland, shallow, a man who seems to have been extracted, as if by a blender, from the onion-and-garlic world of the immigrant Jews, until every last hint of taste and texture have finally disappeared.

  • You are invited to describe the Christmas card sure to be sent by a corporation, world leader, or other personage.

  • You were invited to describe the Christmas card sure to be sent by a corporation, world leader, or other personage.

  • Neither, however, could a figure such as he neglect the observation that the personage with whom the former is now abstractly in conversation was accorded the merit of only dues livres , and that those due were accorded a position more terrestrial, which is to say well below those of the former on the "list."

  • At the risk of sounding grandiose, I hereby declare myself to be involved in a bitter feud with no less a personage than Stephen Jay Gould.


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