Sample Sentences for
personify
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

personify as in:  She personifies wisdom.

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She is kindness personified.
personified = a perfect example (embodying an abstract concept)
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    She personifies optimism.
    personifies = is a perfect example of
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    My father says that princesses personify the decadence of a vanquished era.  (source)
    personify = are a perfect example of
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    There are texts from Maya, who saw me on the news and thinks I'm dope personified...  (source)
    personified = represented perfectly
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    Better than telling my deepest secret to a girl who is basically evil personified?  (source)
    personified = represented as a person
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    With his gentle demeanor, Gandhi seemed the very personification of nonviolence, and he insisted that the campaign be run along identical lines to that of his father's in India.  (source)
    personification = perfect example
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It was right to personify nations.†  (source)
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    We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Oskar Schindler personifies that definition.†  (source)
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    They let me play nothing but symbols of depravity, nothing but harlots, dissipation-chasers and home-wreckers, always to be beaten at the end by the little girl next door, personifying the virtue of mediocrity.†  (source)
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    He finally decided that children liked dinosaurs because these giant creatures personified the uncontrollable force of looming authority.  (source)
    personified = were a perfect example of
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    I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests, but comes close to being the personification itself, of what the Hayes Society terms 'dignity in keeping with his position'.†  (source)
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    So we personify it ....but we don't tell you what it is.†  (source)
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    The gods are symbolic personifications of the laws governing this flow.†  (source)
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personify as in:  She personifies her computer.