Example Sentences

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That belief, however imperfectly we might have personified it, rallied much of the world to our cause and inspired ripples of rebellion throughout the Soviet bloc and elsewhere.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2022

Few CEOs have personified their companies the way Elon Musk does with Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2018

Few have personified these qualities as enthrallingly, disconcertingly and movingly as Frankie “The Answer” Edgar.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017

Few players, if any, have personified determination like Elkjaer.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2012

Echo has always been so amusing to the imagination, that the poets have personified her; and in their hands she has been the occasion of many a beautiful fiction.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert