personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
personates
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present tense formof personate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
As also Psal. cix. the Psalmist personates Christ, complaining of, and imprecating against his enemies; particularly Judas the traitor, verse 8.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
He is a great imitator, and personates the different characters exactly.
From The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
Characters: Count of Lara, a poor nobleman; Beatrice, his wife Miriam, a maid, who personates a page.
From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Robert I. Fulton
But this lofty strain of inspiration proved transient, and Overbeck, as seen in Munich, truly personates the apostle who leant on the Saviour's breast.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
