The word “personality” is a noun referring to the set of qualities and characteristics that make a person unique. Writers also use it to describe someone’s charm, influence, or distinctive traits. The examples below are drawn from authentic works of fiction and nonfiction to show how “personality” appears in real writing.
Real Examples
Gunn dominated the place, and his vile personality hung over it like a shadow.
Source: Captain Rogers (The Lady Of The Barge) by W. W. Jacobs
14 words, 78 characters
It would grow up to be a man, a human soul, with a personality all its own, a will of its own!
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
22 words, 94 characters
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog-personality was precious, to whom these hog-squeals and agonies had a meaning?
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
29 words, 160 characters
There was surely a saloon on the corner—perhaps on all four corners, and some in the middle of the block as well; and each one stretched out a hand to him—each one had a personality of its own, allurements unlike any other.
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
44 words, 225 characters
Schliemann called himself a “philosophic anarchist”; and he explained that an anarchist was one who believed that the end of human existence was the free development of every personality, unrestricted by laws save those of its own being.
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
38 words, 237 characters
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