personify
verb (used with object)
to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
had personified
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past perfectof personify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Her ascension as the first Latina to become City Council president had personified the gains in political representation that Latinos have made in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
Through all of the aching elbows and arms, Conforto had personified a semblance of hope in a lost season.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2017
Several Michigan fans pointed to Harbaugh’s introductory news conference in December as evidence that he had personified the Schembechler creed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2015
It is as if he had personified an image and transformed it into something seemingly absolute, into flesh and blood, but the actual absolute, the young peoples’ bodies, he has converted to images, pixels, digits.
From The New Yorker ● May 18, 2015
Chopin had personified the artist for her; Pierre Leroux, with his words as entangled as his hair, figured now to her as the philosopher.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Alys Hallard
