How to Use personage in a Sentence

personage

noun
  • The premiere was attended by no less a personage than the president himself.
  • And various personages emerge who find lasting places in legend and lore.
    — al, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Even with two full hours, Wednesday's kickoff was not without its anonymous personages.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Match each biblical personage with his or her appropriate theme song.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Throughout, the reader senses the wry affection Grade felt for his lost world, its rogues as well as its personages.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • If a royal personage had died, the palace was behaving with remarkable stoicism.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 4 May 2017
  • And interested personages were invited to help the good guys.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2018
  • While the personages involved are true to history, the details are pure invention.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • There is a magic to the process as circles and triangles, swooping and sketchy lines, resolve into a lifelike personage.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • This Paludan character, the one who burned the quran, is an extreme right personage, who has burned qurans all over Sweden.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • By virtue of this mission, they were considered sacred personages, entitled to the protection of their hosts.
    — David Banks, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But later on the rich men, by means of fictitious personages, transferred these rentals to themselves and finally held most of the land openly in their own names.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 Mar. 2017
  • But Trebek stands apart — a beloved figure, a historical personage.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Kate and William’s wedding was solemn, stately, stuffy, full of dignitaries, politicians, and the sort of boring personages known here as the great and the good.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 20 May 2018
  • All the prominent personages of the city and State were present, and the inspection of the works gave the greatest satisfaction.
    — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
  • And then there are historical personages farting, vomiting and pooping their pants.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Today, begin at the Ducal Tomb, the resting place of royal personages and of Goethe and Schiller.
    — Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2017
  • British identity had long been wrapped up in the dignified personage of a white-haired woman in brightly colored suits who had the patient mien of a grandmother.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
  • What was the key to cracking Chamberlain as a character and not just a remote historical personage?
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Eximious had a royal warrant, a seal of approval issued to those supplying goods to royal personages, from then-Prince Charles.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The age disparity would also highlight how Dae-su’s years of solitary confinement have ravaged and twisted his whole personage.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Time to prove that America is truly a place of equal opportunity to present your views, and security to protect your personage.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 July 2024
  • Known chiefly as a writer of Tartan noir, Mina is also the author of short, punchy novellas on historical personages.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
  • From there, the extravagance of the fashion only increased, with a shoe length hierarchy emerging—the longer the toe, the more important the personage.
    — Ray McClanahan, Outside Online, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The Cutlers are but two of the personages McCullough brings out of the shadows of history in his narrative.
    — John Daniel Davidson, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • Bernard Mannion was a prominent personage in this neighborhood prior to his 1910 death.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The sole other notable personage here is his sister (Therica Wilson-Read), presented as a waspish, back-stabbing type.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The statue of what Confederate personage was removed from its place of prominence in Charlottesville, Virginia?
    — Kathy Laskowski, sun-sentinel.com, 18 July 2021
  • This innovative jazz-age pianist, songwriter and Harlem bon vivant had skills as oversized as the 300-pound personage that stamped him with the nickname he is remembered by.
    — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2024
  • At the bottom of the composition is the figure of Charon, a personage from Greek mythology who rowed souls over the river Styx to enter the pagan underworld.
    — Virginia Raguin, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026

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