How to Use personage in a Sentence

personage

noun
Definition of personagenext
Synonyms for personagenext
  • The premiere was attended by no less a personage than the president himself.
  • Today, begin at the Ducal Tomb, the resting place of royal personages and of Goethe and Schiller.
    — Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And various personages emerge who find lasting places in legend and lore.
    — al, 28 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
  • There, the spirit of de Winter's dead first wife looms everywhere, none more so than in the personage of Mrs. Danvers (a regal, menacing Thomas).
    — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • These personages are broadly sketched, but they needn’t be played quite so cartoonishly.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 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
  • Even with two full hours, Wednesday's kickoff was not without its anonymous personages.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Mary, in the pretty personage of Brittney Bertier, shows up midway through the second act to provide a needed life purpose for the disheartened singer.
    — Tom Titus, Daily Pilot, 4 May 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
  • Week 1340: Slightly change a famous name and describe the resulting personage.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • And interested personages were invited to help the good guys.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2018
  • By virtue of this mission, they were considered sacred personages, entitled to the protection of their hosts.
    — David Banks, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2019
  • If a royal personage had died, the palace was behaving with remarkable stoicism.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 4 May 2017
  • Bernard Mannion was a prominent personage in this neighborhood prior to his 1910 death.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2022
  • What was the key to cracking Chamberlain as a character and not just a remote historical personage?
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The social relevance was underlined by the introductory remarks that evening by no less a personage than the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • The statue of what Confederate personage was removed from its place of prominence in Charlottesville, Virginia?
    — Kathy Laskowski, sun-sentinel.com, 18 July 2021
  • But Trebek stands apart — a beloved figure, a historical personage.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Match each biblical personage with his or her appropriate theme song.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Donatella Versace is revered as a gay icon, as a feminist icon, as a personage whose image can so easily conjured that only her first name is necessary for her to spring to the mind’s eye in all her blonde glory.
    — Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
  • In 2013, the school retired the cheerleading personage, which, since Mr. Luce’s time, had acquired a cartoonish Native American bobblehead.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • And then there are historical personages farting, vomiting and pooping their pants.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And the subversiveness of molding a more revered political personage into the sinister force behind Pinochet gives the comic elements a big payoff with an Oedipal kick.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023

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