PERSONALITY in a Sentence

Learn PERSONALITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for PERSONALITY, such as:

1. To pay a person in his own way.
2. She was the only person able to do it.
3. He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.
4. He's the sort of person who only cares about money.
5. His personality made him an easy subject for parody.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSONALITY
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personality
 n.  complex of all the attributes of a person; totality of qualities and traits of a person
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  She was not blind to the fact that her personality was changing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  He felt the confused titillation with which the lower organisms welcome the gratification of their needs, and all his senses floundered in a vague well-being, through which Miss Bart's personality was dimly but pleasantly perceptible.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
4  Lily's mind had reverted from the intrusive personality of Mr. Rosedale to the train of thought set in motion by Trenor's first words.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
5  The indication was a slight one, and a year ago Lily would have smiled at it, trusting to the charm of her personality to dispel any prejudice against her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
6  If they were less vivid in hue, more subdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they were for that very reason better suited to her mental vision.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  She did not indeed let her imagination range beyond the day of plighting: after that everything faded into a haze of material well-being, in which the personality of her benefactor remained mercifully vague.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
8  Mrs. Fisher's experience guarded her against the mistake of exposing Lily, for the first evening, to the unmitigated impression of Rosedale's personality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
9  His kindliness and the firmness of his personality enveloped her and she accepted him as one who had a right to know what she thought and wore and ate and read.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  But at the entrance of Guy Pollock she discovered a personality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
11  She flushed; she was alarmed by the ease with which the big-city man invaded her guarded personality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  There was a dangerous edge of personality to his voice.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  He was himself, and in him, in the personality flowing from him, she was unreasoningly content.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  They had seemed stiff and undetailed, but now there strode from them a personality, a personality unlike that of the languishing young man in the velvet jacket playing a dummy piano in a canvas room.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  In the midst of the personified impersonal, a personality stands here.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  His personality made him an easy subject for parody.
17  They have a clown-like personality and are known to hop rather than run.
18  The judge said Moura showed a violent personality, unsuited to living in society and that the killing was carried out in a violent and cowardly manner.
19  Everyone liked Nancy's pleasant manners and engaging personality.
20  Given Susan's retiring personality, no one expected her to take up public speaking.
21  Selena's seraphic appearance belied her nasty, bitter personality.
22  The psychologist maintained there was a causal relationship between the nature of one's early childhood experiences and one's adult personality.
23  The general who led the military takeover of Thailand is known as an ardent defender of the monarchy, an adversary of the former prime minister at the center of the nation's political crisis, and a prickly personality prone to snap at unwanted questions.
24  To pay a person in his own way.
25  She was the only person able to do it.
26  There's a lot of contention about that issue - for every person firmly in favour, there's someone fiercely against it.
27  He's the sort of person who only cares about money.
28  As long as a person strongly unremittingly in pursuit, he will be able to achieve the purpose of.
29  Hamlet is usually played as a sorrowful person who cannot make decisions or take action.
30  He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.