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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • This sketch of a pensive moralist, the personification of the column, the Uncle Ben of ethics, the Betty Crocker of morals, looks not at all like me.


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