Example sentences for: personage

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

  • His seat-mate is a religious personage.

  • Indeed, Mr. Mason's call to purify English of Germanic influences reminds one of the French hysteria over “Franglais,” or of the more sinister years in this century when a “Telefon” become a “Fernsprecher,” a “Radio” become a “Rundfunk,” and so ordinary a personage as Mama became a Fricka-like “Mutti.”

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

  • Several of the personal names in the book are popular boys' names amongst Mormon families today; especially popular are Jared (which is also the name of an obscure Biblical personage, but the Book of Mormon character has a far greater profile), Helaman and Nephi .

  • 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."


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