Example sentences for: personage

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

  • Yet she was also the century's most popular royal personage, a fact that now seems not at all unrelated.

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

  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • His seat-mate is a religious personage.


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