Sentences with 'personification'

Example sentences and phrases with the word personification and other words derived from it.

« The name, which caught on immediately, was at first a symbol of the American army and later came to represent the personification of the United States and its people. »
« In John Gast's American Progress, the white, blond figure of Columbia - the historical personification of the United States - walks triumphantly westward with the Star of Empire on his head. She brings education, symbolised by the schoolbook, and modern technology, represented by the telegraph cable. White settlers follow, driving out the defenceless natives and bringing with them successive waves of technological progress. »
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