Example sentences for: personified

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

  • Death, personified as a woman and dressed in white clothing, is a well-known character in Chicano and Mexicano folklore.

  • Eventually ramrod became personified, taking on the added meaning of `one marked by rigidity, stiffness, and severity,' even though the original ramrods, which were straight, were rather flexible.

  • The format was taken up for advertising purposes, with families of dogs and personified cigarette brands and was given an ingenious verbal twist in the 1950s in a large Happy Families set produced by the drug firm Wyeth to publicize a cough linctus.

  • Like Louis B. Mayer, William Fox, and Jack Warner--the eastern European Jews who invented Hollywood--the Weinsteins are chutzpah personified, imperious and megalomaniac.

  • The more policy disputes are personified, the more the confirmation process becomes a war of martyrs and dragon slayers, the uglier and more unproductive politics becomes.


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