PERSONAGE in a Sentence

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88 example sentences for PERSONAGE, such as:

1. He is fast becoming a personage.
2. He played the personage of Hamlet in the play.
3. In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene.
4. This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.
5. The personage, determined to be gracious at any cost, insisted.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSONAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
personage
 n.  form, appearance, or belongings of a person; external appearance, stature, figure, air
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  Thus he proceeded in a tolerably perplexed state of mind, putting to himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
2  This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA
3  This caused the horrible journey to last three or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object of sparing the royal personage a sight of it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
4  One personage, whose name has remained unknown, announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
5  Grantaire was attacking his second bottle and, possibly, his second harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the stairs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
6  The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is afraid of waking.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
7  In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MIS...
8  This was not observed by the slouching and tattered personage who was in advance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
9  The first thing that struck the observer was, that this personage's coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made for him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
10  The personage, determined to be gracious at any cost, insisted.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
11  The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
12  Nevertheless, d'Artagnan was desirous of examining the appearance of this impertinent personage who ridiculed him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
13  But the stranger knew not the headstrong personage he had to do with; d'Artagnan was not the man ever to cry for quarter.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
14  de Treville, the third personage in the kingdom, in the paternal estimation.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
15  There was in all this, as may have been observed, one personage concerned, of whom, notwithstanding his precarious position, we have appeared to take but very little notice.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
Example Sentence:
1  He played the personage of Hamlet in the play.
2  He is fast becoming a personage.