How to Use personification in a Sentence

personification

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  • And then there was Logan, the personification of the show’s dark theme.
    — Vulture, 30 May 2023
  • Rice did Benghazi and is the personification of the Deep State.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The King of Pop was almost the personification of dreams.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Txarango A party band to save the world, Txarango can best be described as the personification of good vibes.
    — Judy Cantor-Navas, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
  • This song is a personification of my demons and my dark side.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • The mission of the food bank, Hulett said, is to unite the community in the fight against hunger, and the holiday food drive is the personification of that mission.
    — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Kraven is the personification of it, but in skintight, head-to-toe animal print.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 May 2021
  • The dark figure in the doorway may be a personification of Death at the door, standing over the future President’s shoulder, about to shut the door on the light.
    — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee, 20 Apr. 2018
  • In the ad, Satan matches with a woman who happens to be the human personification of the year 2020.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Harry’s nemesis, the Dark Lord, the personification of all that is evil.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Why do you get cast so often as the personification of evil?
    — Eben Shapiro, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The track wept, and that isn’t an attempt at personification.
    — Austin Knoblauchassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Williams’s goal is for his kid to be the personification of Black excellence.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Moscone was the very personification of the wheeler-dealer politico, with a sonorous bass.
    — Dallas News, 28 June 2022
  • 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
  • The Kansas State defense is the personification of feast or famine.
    — Brice Paterik, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The ancient Greeks did not conceive of Hades as the personification of evil a la Satan (though the underworld that Mitchell depicts is a hellish one).
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
  • But in many ways, Moustakas has become the personification of the cold market.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 6 Mar. 2018
  • We’re used to thinking of Joe Biden—first elected to the Senate in 1972—as the personification of a career public servant.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Themis is the Greek goddess who was considered to be the personification of justice.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2017
  • For the first half of the show, the Tuunbaq functions almost as a personification of the aggressiveness of the landscape, like Open Water’s sharks.
    — Asher Elbein, The Atlantic, 1 May 2018
  • Reynolds, who is forty-six, is the personification of Starmer’s centrist party.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
  • To his mother, William was the personification of Wroth’s fair design.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Plus: Mark Zuckerberg’s own words, the personification of the internet, and Burger King’s whopper of an ask.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Featuring a variety of clothing, bags, shoes, accessories and travel gear, the latest drop is the personification of timelessness and ease.
    — Erin Lassner, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024

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