Example sentences for: personification

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

  • 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.

  • The lesson learned is that one must not disobey one’s parents, for the handsome man is known to be the devil and the personification of evil.

  • 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 kind of personification of the computer does nobody any good.

  • 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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