PERSONABLE in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for PERSONABLE, such as:
1. To pay a person in his own way.
2. She was the only person able to do it.
3. Verb and subject must agree in person.
4. He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.
5. I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PERSONABLE
personable
 a.  pleasing in personality or appearance; attractive
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  There are marks of blood in the room, but there is no wound upon his person.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  He knows that I am his superior, and acknowledges it to me; but he would cut his tongue out before he would own it to any third person.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  The mere sight of an official-looking person seals men's lips.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5  Neither of them had time to speak, however, before there was a tap at the door, and the spokesman of the street Arabs, young Wiggins, introduced his insignificant and unsavoury person.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  The hand of God is leading us under the person of our Prophet.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
7  There was no wound upon the dead man's person, but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his fate before it came upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
8  Then Mr. Oliver crumpled the paper which he had cocked into a snout and appeared in person.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  Or perhaps not a person's life; a county's.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
10  Vulgar she was in her gestures, in her whole person, over-sexed, over-dressed for a picnic.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
11  He was striding through the cars with the air of a person of authority, who is awaited, expected, and now comes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
12  "Very well, then, we wish to see his rooms," said the lawyer; and when the woman began to declare it was impossible, "I had better tell you who this person is," he added.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
13  I next drew up that will to which you so much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
15  She supervised the meal officially, but implied that in her own stately person she considered lunch a weakness.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  So showing good moral standards and being personable is a great start.
2  To pay a person in his own way.
3  She was the only person able to do it.
4  There's a lot of contention about that issue - for every person firmly in favour, there's someone fiercely against it.
5  He's the sort of person who only cares about money.
6  As long as a person strongly unremittingly in pursuit, he will be able to achieve the purpose of.
7  Hamlet is usually played as a sorrowful person who cannot make decisions or take action.
8  He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.
9  An estate agent is a person who buys and sells buildings and land for others.
10  Verb and subject must agree in person.
11  He was the only person who understood all the arcane details of the agreement.
12  In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
13  A diligent person, although because of his hard work and damage to his spiritual insight or fresh and creative, but he still will be praised.
14  I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
15  I am waiting for a person to accompany me for a long time.