How to Use people person in a Sentence

people person

noun
  • People joke about being a dog person or a people person.
    Wendy Naugle, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Indeed, Hord was regarded as first and foremost a people person.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The adoring columns touting Wu as a people person have already begun.
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Bryant describes herself as a people person, someone who can strike up a conversation anywhere and leave knowing someone's life story.
    Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
  • Linda is not the right kind of people person for the job, Bradley tells her — and yes, Send Help’s insistence that McAdams’s character is frumpy and repellant requires more suspension of disbelief than anything else in the movie.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026

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