How to Use personal in a Sentence

personal

1 of 2 adjective
  • He is a personal friend of mine.
  • He added his own personal touches to the recipe.
  • Golf is a personal interest of mine.
  • This is just my personal opinion.
  • We provide each of our customers with personal service.
  • May I ask you a personal question?
  • That information is very personal, and you have no business asking about it.
  • We don't accept personal checks.
  • She is always concerned about her personal appearance.
  • I can only tell you what I know from personal experience.
  • As if my very personal songs left home and made friends all over the world.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • So yeah, that case was personal.
    — Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Chase Field will not hold personal items.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Daniel likes to keep his personal life out of the office, thank you very much.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2026
  • Sometimes, those personal demons will be the death of you.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Either way, this month is deeply personal for you.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
  • The ones in their personal lives, the ones that may not have happened if not for their old coach.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • This year has been marked by personal loss for Parton as well.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That might be a personal request, though!
    — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But the spark for Space of mind came from something far more personal.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This is a styling tip pulled directly from my own personal wardrobe.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The sun shines a light on your personal desires and longings.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 18 June 2026
  • In fact, some people will even know private things about your personal life.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Her story reminds us that choice is not just personal.
    — Shelley Zalis, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Shop it with the matching shams, or mix it with classic stripes for a personal touch.
    — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • Each chose to let their deeply personal lyrics tell their backstory.
    — Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Making peace with that feeling has been a personal growth point.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, some will know personal details about your private life.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, some will know personal details about your private life.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In the South, talking about food is personal.
    — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025

personal

2 of 2 noun
  • Each tale is different, each journey personal, and not all of them are good.
    — Taylor Bryant, Glamour, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Designing from a place of feeling helps make a home personal.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
  • John, who battled foul trouble in many games last season, was whistled for two personals in the first half.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Both are hands-on jobs, where the professional can’t help but bleed into the personal.
    — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The personal has always been a part of Prince-Bythewood’s work.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2022
  • That personal was at the service of proving something to myself.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The full moon in Virgo on March 1 shines a bright light on your personal and shared resources.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Porter was asking what Beilein thought of some of the foul calls against him, as Porter finished with four personals.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The Kanye who resents his fame and the Kayne who projects the personal into the public sphere.
    — George Messenger, National Review, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Some dating sites and Craigslist’s personals page have already fallen victim to the new laws.
    — Susan Elizabeth Shepard, Vox, 1 June 2018
  • My mom always taught me that the personal is political and that those two things should be intertwined.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Sometimes politics gives way to the personal at the White House.
    — Kevin Freking, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2020
  • George took that as a sign that her approach — blending the personal with the political — would work in her newest role.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2020
  • Beyond policy and promises, the personal has loomed largest for Biden.
    — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Like thoughts on politics, views on education, can be messy — and rooted in the personal.
    — Nick Fouriezos, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Second, the pandemic pushed the personal into the school, and this was an improvement.
    — Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Shapiro is declaring a personal as well as partisan victory.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Lawmaker wants a study This one's personal for me as an Illinois native.
    — Marissa Payne, Des Moines Register, 23 Jan. 2026
  • From local Native American stones and objects to some of my own personal finds over the years.
    — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • So much writing about personal finance focuses on the basics, like sticking to a budget or paying off debt.
    — Kristin Wong, The Cut, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In such a tense time, though, the personal sometimes overshadows the political.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The personal has never been a hallmark of Diller’s work in architecture and design.
    — New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The former Italian colony routinely ranks last among nations in personal and press freedom.
    — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Murray made two free throws for the technicals, Grant added another for a personal that was called and the lead was 11.
    — Tim Reynolds, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The paradox of the impersonal personal is the defining trait of Soderbergh’s art.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Her aversion to revealing the personal has prompted many of those who know her best to eschew cooperation, at least on the record.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Jennings teased out the personal from what could otherwise have been a sweeping metanarrative of Britain in wartime.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 23 Feb. 2021
  • As a result, their connection to the issue goes beyond the legal arguments into the realm of the personal.
    — Gina Glantz, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • Inside Out, is filled with personal, sometimes painful details of the star's life and relationships behind the scenes.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The founders of the country viewed the pardon power not as a personal token for the president to hand out but as an act of mercy meant to check the other two branches.
    — Stewart Ulrich, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025

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