How to Use personage in a Sentence

personage

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024