Example sentences for: personages

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

  • Ceramic polychrome figurines of historic or legendary personages are popular, as are little animals, with the panda the most sought after.

  • From dealing with academic administrators, I knew to come straight to the point with personages who sit behind large desks and have their time allocated by secretaries.

  • To read this book, on the other hand, is to hold on for dear life while a tornado of invisible winks, quadruple entendres, and mystifying personages blows you by--unless you happen to know, for example, that the "Hughes" on Page 124 is billionaire Howard Hughes, with whom Don Nixon (Sr.

  • "Because of an ancient Scottish curse, anyone who writes a life of these four historical personages ends up reproducing, word for word and comma for comma, a long-out-of-print biography that they have never even read!"

  • II. The editor introduces this section— Names in Literature—by stating the purpose of it, namely, which is to ask if the study of imaginary personages and places does not properly belong to onomastics. (p. 127.)


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