How to Use personify in a Sentence

personify

verb

• Justice is personified as a woman with her eyes covered.
• The ancient Greeks personified the forces of nature as gods and goddesses.
• The Beach Boys personified Southern California in the ‘60s and on, bringing the sun and surf to the rest of the world.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• How could the man who is Barcelona personified stay away?
  — SI.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• The head-to-toe glam feels like spring personified: the bob is cheerful and flirty and the makeup is fresh and soft.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 24 Feb. 2025
• The pot of gold at the other side of the rainbow fully personified.
  — Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 29 May 2019
• Jokic is clutch personified, an artist at his best when the clock’s about to run out.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2024
• Her style is personified in her store, as well as her home, and her buying trips tend to end with goods for both places.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 10 May 2017
• Then my theater brain needed to personify it, to be like, ‘Hey, girl, talk to me.
  — Michael Love Michael, Them, 19 Sep. 2024
• No one personifies that idea more than the coach, Steve Sampson.
  — Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Both John and Joe — and Wills, who is still on the show — personify a kind of fleeting Bachelorette hero.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 9 July 2018
• The beauty of this game may be personified in Larry Ward’s jump shot.
  — Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
• Funny and stylish, the video sees karma personified as a jealous, hard to read lover that Daye just can’t seem to get over.
  — Sydney Scott, Essence, 22 Nov. 2019
• In both fashion and home decor, what are some must-have items that personify a coastal lifestyle?
  — Monica Mendal, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The Book of Wisdom, a book in the Catholic Bible, depicts wisdom personified as a woman.
  — Annie Selak, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
• Shiv, Kendall, and Roman laugh and bump fists, but through prolonged, strained glances, their doubt personified in the high-note strings playing over the scene.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 26 Mar. 2023
• Trudeau absorbed the turn, and rapidly came to personify it.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
• No one personified what being a Cane meant more than Sam.
  — David Furones, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• Reynolds, whom the Phillies would send to mime school in order to enhance his skills, would personify the Phanatic for the next 16 seasons.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• The artists seem to personify the tiny town — at once both traditional and modern.
  — Eric Dusenbery, ajc, 3 Jan. 2022
• You’re pop personified, so to receive this from your golden pop hands is ..
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 13 Sep. 2023
• By the late ‘80s, Ringwald personified ideal girlhood in the US, which was a heavy burden.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• The player who personified it was the same player who would emerge as James’s unlikely foil.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
• The jersey, and the playlist the player gains control of for a day, is his way of rewarding players who personify what the team’s looking for, and hopes to build the franchise on.
  — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024
• On Medicare-for-All and free college tuition, Buttigieg has personified the middle ground, the art of the possible.
  — Michael Brenes, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2019
• The film personifies the push and pull between the old-fashioned and new-fangled through a new character for the beloved franchise: Norbot.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
• Each sin, with an influencer at the helm, is personified.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 16 Oct. 2019
• No one personifies the line’s blue-collar ethos more than Creason.
  — Michael Lev, azcentral, 9 July 2019
• The three days in Detroit personified a lot of what has been different between the Orioles' start to the season and their recent spell.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2017
• This was perhaps best personified in a 1992 sketch that saw Clinton take an extended break from his jog to greet Americans at his local McDonalds.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025