personify
verb (used with object)
to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
will personify
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future tenseof personify.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Their new captain, Andy Burnham, is of towering ambition, claiming he will personify "the most significant change" in our politics in 40 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Of one starved survivor who wept before him, Kissinger reflected: “Human dignity, objective values have stopped at this barbed wire”—but “as long as conscience exists as a conception in this world you will personify it.”
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023
The ISA hopes to increase the potential for similar experiences in surfing, by selecting five inspirational individuals, who will personify stories of goodwill on how surfing can change the life of a person.
From Time Magazine Archive
I 'm going to make a statue when I get home," she said,—"a statue which will personify Nevada, and represent the tameless, desolate, changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of the desert.
From Deserted 1898 by Edward Bellamy
If Childe Harold personifies Lord Byron, who will personify the poet?
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
