How to Use persona in a Sentence

persona

noun
Definition of personanext
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  • The band takes on a whole new persona when they perform live.
  • His public persona is that of a strong, determined leader, but in private life he's very insecure.
  • In fact, the ethos is central to both her and the brands' public personas.
    — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And men, as the press loved to write about, swooned over his onstage persona.
    — Randy Dotinga, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • So, it’s been a blast, getting to take on this whole new persona.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The public and private personas of Kotick are hard to square.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
  • At the heart of things was always the question of how to distinguish the persona from the person.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But if this album and these shows truly the end of that persona, what a way to go out.
    — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2024
  • This is the good part of being The Machine, a persona that’s given him the chance to make a few of his wilder dreams come true.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
  • After all, bad things seem to happen to him, or at least his screen persona, all the time.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Is there a persona or specific name tied to this record?
    — Vulture, 24 May 2023
  • Your outer world persona gets extra shine with the Leo new moon.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But Ritchie always seemed to be in on the joke of his outrageous Kid Rock persona.
    — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
  • Like all of her various eras, this new glam rock persona has a root.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Still, Palmer sees her public persona as a bit of an alter-ego.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2023
  • The vocals deftly change tone from song to song, conveying the feelings of the persona of each song.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Her onscreen persona – the playground tease who’s first to help out the kid who fell off the swing set – translates to real life.
    — Neal Justin, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Gary adopts the persona on their dates, which are at first trysts at her home, but later include visits out in the world.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • Elvis was such a huge persona that just the essentials, the whiff of Elvis-isms, is enough to give us plenty of context clues.
    — Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 20 May 2024
  • The two form a formidable bond as the film riffs on Schwarzenegger’s star persona.
    — Charna Flam, Variety, 10 June 2023
  • In the finale, Wanda trapped Agatha in her nosy neighbor persona while releasing the rest of the town.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 July 2024
  • Just as present in the film, however, is Montero Lamar Hill, the person behind the persona.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Most important, to both Morrissey and Warhol, were the personas and celebrities on the screen.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Daniel Craig is making a big splash with his first movie role since moving on from his 007 persona as James Bond.
    — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Once boxy and slow, the lineup is modern and stylish with a European persona.
    — James Raia, The Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • By then, he was known by his new persona: the Lambo-driving don called Oxygod.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
  • At some point, though, the persona might've overshadowed the talent in some viewers' eyes.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Maintaining her persona, Shug proved that she could not be tamed.
    — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • Von Rumpel’s over-the-top persona feels tired next to the more casual, chilling evil of most of the other Nazi characters.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Known for his breezy, ladies’ man persona onstage, Jones was married six times, most notably to actress Jill St. John for slightly more than a year in the late 1960s.
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024

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