Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

She was no repeater or false personator, or probably she would not be persecuted, and certainly she would be pardoned.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

An impostor, a personator, a cheat, and I gave him place and rank.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Caine, Hall, Sir

You would rather have risked her finding you with Cytherea as a second wife, than with me as a personator of herself—the first one.'

From Desperate Remedies by Hardy, Thomas

The first errand of the returned personator of Christ was to his author!

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

The personator is therefore in this dilemma: if he wears actual spectacles, he cannot see through them; if he wears sham spectacles of plain glass, his disguise will probably be detected.

From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)