personage

Example Sentences

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Stanton is a huge and consequential personage in American history, but she has dwindled in the eyes of posterity to become a subordinate of Anthony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Musk’s unrestrained, all-access scourge through the government has led pundits like Nate Silver to compare him to a ‘great man’ of history — that mythic personage whose unhindered agency pushes history forward.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023

“She is of a generation that went through that process, and she was an unusual personage in that generation.”

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023

He appeared a taciturn, and perhaps a proud personage; but he was very kind to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë