characterful

Example Sentences

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She helps her busy clients find historic, characterful homes in L.A. within their budget.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

The characterful, low-rise cityscape of mustard-coloured French colonial mansions was transformed into another Asian high-rise forest of glass and steel towers.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Rodell Aure Rosel, as the slimy marriage broker, Goro, and Wei Wu, as the angry monk Bonze, were both characterful in a silent movie kind of way.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

He has hired a slew of younger choristers who trained as soloists, and has guided those powerful and characterful voices into a cohesive whole.

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

Neat little heaps of fruit, apexed into "ball-piled pyramids," are guarded by characterful old women, alert and intent, whose heads, coifed with striped kerchiefs, nod a reward to the purchaser with a hearty "Merci, monsieur!"

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa