Sentence examples for personate from inspiring English sources

Speaking after Irving's 100th performance of Shylock, the writer and politician Lord Houghton said: "If Mr Irving chose to personate Iago, it would be on the same principles as a very honest man, only devoted to the object of watching over Othello's wife".

I completely failed to spot that TREE and PERFORATE were possible (though in my view slightly inferior) alternatives to TWEE and PERSONATE and had no hesitation in accepting both.

Is this professed pensioned personating a man who is dead?

In each of these an actor personates a character recalling or reliving an experience of that day.

This week, he personates a ketchup bottle; next week, a packet of crisps.