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

The husband-and-wife couple had personified the Chinese economy’s broader rags-to-riches rise.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 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

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

He felt that Dick's dreamy nature and inherited tastes had scarcely given him a fair chance in fighting that temptation which Peter Many-Names had personified.

From Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests by Pickthall, Marjorie L. C.