How to Use person in a Sentence

person

noun

• The person at the front desk will be able to help you.
• I saw a person standing on the dock.
• She is a very nice person.
• I like her as a person, but she is not a very good writer.
• The dogs discovered that the men were hiding drugs about their persons.
• Any person who wants a refund must have a receipt.
• Most people here are quite friendly.
• The tax break is only applicable to persons in a high income bracket.
• The disease is easily transmitted from person to person.
• The tickets are $25 per person.
• The last person to pull that off was Navy’s Roger Staubach in 1963.
  — Sarah Kelly, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
• Is your wife the type of person who loves to be pampered?
  — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2023
• Were Olivia and Claire there in person for the final scene in the cathedral?
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• All drafts are available in person and as a to-go in a twistee can.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
• The paper needed one person to say yes, to go on the record.
  — Natasha Henstridge, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• The shooting killed one person and wounded Mr. Khan in the leg.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• From the outside, your fans think of you as a very strong-willed person, in your art.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2024
• The event costs $6 per person or $4.50 for Friends of Pringle members.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2023
• Read on for some of the spiciest peppers a person can buy.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• And, in turn, that person can try and poison the jury against him.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• The snowmobile seems to stall as the person recording turns his head to face it.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 26 Jan. 2024
• After a person exercised, those AVAs pulled in hot blood from the core of the body.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 21 June 2023
• That’s my criteria—if the person on the street, who doesn’t like snakes, stops and says, like, ‘Whoa, that’s a snake?!
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The person who's able to barricade all the doors in the shortest amount of time becomes the new HOH.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2022
• The identity of the person who placed the ad was not disclosed in the FBI affidavit.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• That person would stand for election at the next city election in April 2025.
  — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
• Trump spends some of his time these days meeting with lawyers, whether in person or by phone.
  — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The one person who came to her aid in the days that followed was Kris Kristofferson.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
• So, the main question of the case was, could a person born in America be a citizen in a place where his parents could not be as well?
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025
• Finding someone who can be acutely self-aware while supremely confident says something about the person.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025