personates
- present tense form of personate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“Everett Quinton personates the oinker as a most sympathetic fellow,” Don Nelsen wrote in a review in The Daily News.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2023
For aught I know he still roams the Adirondack forest, and maybe personates the ghostly and ghastly white deer of song and legend.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate
Colonel Feignwell personates Simon Pure, and obtains the Quaker’s consent to his marriage with Anne Lovely.—Mrs.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
The child-adventurer as he personates Robinson Crusoe or other hero becomes another being.
From Children's Ways by Sully, James
Colonel Freeman personates a French fop, and obtains his consent to marry his ward, the heiress.—Mrs.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
