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

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

What won’t change: the hotel’s status as a characterful Los Angeles icon and official city landmark, within walking distance of the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica pier.

From National Geographic • Apr. 18, 2023

His gestures at the podium were not just directional, but also characterful; no measure of the score came off as unconsidered.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2022

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