9 sentences with “personally”

Reading is one of the best ways to enrich oneself personally.

But that doesn't matter: as a teacher, I've never been personally very close to my students.

Xerxes then personally withdrew along with a significant part of his army, while claiming victory over the Greeks.

In almost every major battle, Alexander the Great personally led the cavalry, a quality that inspired loyalty and confidence in his men.

Alexander the Great was a military genius and a brave warrior, personally leading his armies into battle and fighting despite being wounded on several occasions.

All of them: Bell, Edison and the Wright brothers, personally designed the machines that made them famous; but Ford's achievement was based on the work of others.

A single royal official with vast personal power, the vizier, oversaw the entire system and personally decided when to open the Nile locks to allow the floodwaters to flow out each year.

Trajan responded personally to petitions and correspondence, instituted a programme of cheap loans to farmers and used the interest to pay for food for poor children, and worked closely and successfully with the Senate to maintain imperial stability and solvency.

Darius I inherited the conquests of his predecessors and personally oversaw the conquest of the northern part of the Indus River valley in northwest India, marking the first time in world history that one state ruled over three of the major river systems of ancient history (i.e. the Nile, Mesopotamia and the Indus).