How to Use personification in a Sentence

personification

noun
  • This song is a personification of my demons and my dark side.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2019
  • That line is the personification of speed and skill.
    — Chris Pronger, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • And there's this real sense of personification of those trees.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The track wept, and that isn’t an attempt at personification.
    — Austin Knoblauchassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Kraven is the personification of it, but in skintight, head-to-toe animal print.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 May 2021
  • But there is still value in the movie star, a personification of our ideas about power and art, onscreen and off.
    — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • And then there was Logan, the personification of the show’s dark theme.
    — Vulture, 30 May 2023
  • But Olympia is the personification of all the damage she’s caused.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Jay's entire personification was an open book, ready to add you as a character in the chapters of his life.
    — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 13 Jan. 2020
  • In that regard, the two are the personification of old world tradition with a very modern fairy tale twist.
    — Carole Radziwill, Town & Country, 4 Aug. 2022
  • McKennie is maybe the personification of how the math in midfield has changed.
    — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Moscone was the very personification of the wheeler-dealer politico, with a sonorous bass.
    — Dallas News, 28 June 2022
  • Williams’s goal is for his kid to be the personification of Black excellence.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The personification of robots is at the root of most of our beloved science-fiction tales about outer space and beyond.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Macron has often been overeager to be seen as the personification of the republic.
    — Justin E. H. Smith, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2020
  • That dream match is the perfect personification of a battle of two different eras.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • When the clown appears to each misfit, he is preceded by a personification of each of their greatest fears.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The teacher told them to write down the definitions of a metaphor and personification and create their own.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Reynolds, who is forty-six, is the personification of Starmer’s centrist party.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
  • But in many ways, Moustakas has become the personification of the cold market.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Rice did Benghazi and is the personification of the Deep State.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Harry’s nemesis, the Dark Lord, the personification of all that is evil.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Themis is the Greek goddess who was considered to be the personification of justice.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2017
  • The Kansas State defense is the personification of feast or famine.
    — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • To his mother, William was the personification of Wroth’s fair design.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Industry is where innocence goes to die, choked out in bed by various personifications of greed.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Medusa was known in ancient Greece for petrifying anyone who dared to look her in the eye, and has been seen as a personification of madness.
    — Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • As his right hand raises the mallet to strike another blow, his left hand is stopped by the robed personification of death, her face heavily obscured by folds of a hood.
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But the living personification of the changing times was Bobby.
    — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025
  • His words and tone are encouraging, and the Oilers’ investment in him is the personification of low rise.
    — Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025

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