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How to use personally in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Personally means in a personal manner. Example: “I'm really annoyed with her, personally.”

Examples of personally by meaning

adverbIn person.

  • Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  • 'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84

adverbConcerning oneself.

  • I'm really annoyed with her, personally.
  • Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

adverbAs a person.

  • I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.

More sentences with personally

  • Don't take it personally when he shouts like that. He's just blowing off steam.From the entry blow off steam
  • I think he was just kidding around when he said that, so don't take it personally.From the entry kid around
  • Don't take it personally. We're just being ironic.From the entry ironic
  • Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.From the entry quarry
  • The mayor of the little town rolled out the red carpet for new businesses by calling on them personally.From the entry roll out the red carpet
  • Don't take it personally if your editor imposes the Oxford comma — it's merely an aspect of house style.From the entry house style
  • Hey, don't take it personally. I was only messing around.From the entry mess around
  • I personally consider this to be an overhated movie.From the entry overhated
  • They sometimes gave terrible advice (I wouldn't personally recommend strawpedoing a bottle of Petrikov to anyone).2026 April 11, Simon van Teutem, “The market failure beneath the manosphere”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial…. From the entry strawpedo
  • So I was gagged personally and I still am gagged, but it was quite divine intervention.2024 May 10, Justin Moran, quoting Isaac Dunbar, “Isaac Dunbar and Kerri Colby Were Built for This”, in Paper. From the entry gag
  • These types of books might be a little bleak, but personally, I am obsessed with them.2023 August 17, Mara Franzen, “Dying Earth Sci-Fi Books: We Gotta Find a New Planet, and Fast!”, in bookriot.com. From the entry Dying Earth
  • I’ve personally been using it for the past 6 months with no problems, even after multiple sharpening.2023 December 27, Ben Kepka, “The 6 Best Fillet Knife Reviewed in 2025 – Buyers Guide”, in Fly Fisher Pro, archived from the original on…. From the entry filleting knife
  • Personally I dislike reaction videos because they seem fake and prewatched.2022 January 17, tony223111, r/DemonSlayerAnime, Reddit, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2024. From the entry prewatch
  • “I think I need a ninjatō to really sell the image, personally, but—”2020, Cari Z, L.A. Witt, chapter 2, in Hitman vs. Hitman, GallagherWitt, →ISBN. From the entry ninjatō
  • Personally, I believe it was more of a regional dialect and NOT because I was poorly educated.2019 February 25, Paul Turner, quoting Patty West, “Paul Turner: Hello, modern-day Spokane children. I scoff at your puny snow forts.”, in…. From the entry Warshington
  • I preferred the friendmance with Fenris personally, but like with Isabela, the rivalmance is also pretty good.2019 February 24, KvonLiechtenstein, Reddit. From the entry rivalmance
  • Have we not created a generation of perpetual "bottle suckers" (babies in respect to being personally responsible)?2019, Greg DeHart, Hey America Listen Up: An Appeal of A Man of God, Christian Faith Publishing. From the entry bottle-sucker
  • "Don't take it personally, Gillian, dear, but for me, WAAFs are a bit, well, stodgy.2018, Justine Saracen, Berlin Hungers. From the entry lumpy jumper
  • But now I think I’ve found a particularly disturbing and personally resonant reason for my Disneyphobia.2018, Jonathan Gornall, How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry Disneyphobia
  • “I personally just don’t like them trying to hide it from me because I’ll find out eventually.2018 April 3, Brittany Wong, “If You're On A Dating App, Chances Are You've Been Hatfished”, in Huffington Post, archived from the…. From the entry hatfisher
  • Personally, I would have avada kedavra’d the whole lot of them.2016 April 1, Skeeter Reeter bo Beeter [pseudonym], “Professor Rewarded for Taking Revenge on Slacking Students”, in The Wilson Bullboard…. From the entry Avada Kedavra
  • I have to admit that I am personally not too concerned with the severity change.2015 August 24, Niels Thykier, “Raising the severity of reproduciblity^([sic]) issues to "important"”, in linux.debian.devel (Usenet). From the entry YKINMKBYKIOK
  • WikiHate, wikihate Counterproductive editing attitude and behavior, especially tendentious, biased and personally antagonistic types of edit-warring.2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 223. From the entry edit-war
  • She did not see him until almost noon, when he personally delivered lunch to her tent.2012, Stephen Woodworth, In Golden Blood: Number 3 in series. From the entry stale
  • Personally I'd like to see Runic and Norse Latin supported, but I guess that's not very important.2012 November 29, Jan Egil Kristiansen, “The case for Faroese Letters under the Faroese ccTLD .fo”, in Styrheim Tech. From the entry synoglyph
  • Arroyo of personally ordering the abuses, but contends that she had “command responsibility,” Bishop Marigza said.2011 June 16, Associated Press. From the entry command responsibility
  • Preferably if you know the person personally and the coach is trustworthy and good:) Thanks!2011 April 13, pesspgde_05/06_yr2 (Usenet). From the entry lobang
  • Unfortunately I took the rejection personally and replied in my own fear of rejection.2010, George Pontius, Grace over the Long Run. From the entry spokeslady
  • Laughter is celebrated as the "best medicine", as both socially positive and personally liberatory.2009 Summer, Sandra Swart, “"The Terrible Laughter of the Afrikaner"—Towards a Social History of Humor”, in Journal of Social History…. From the entry misogelast
  • Personally, I don't think it would change the need for a space to live.2009 April 1, Tina Hall, “A sleepless world?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Mar 2026. From the entry roof over the head
  • I don't use cartridges, personally, I use a technique known as dry-smoking.2008 March 29, John R. Polito, “Do Kennedy and Waxman know about electronic or e-cigarettes?”, in WhyQuit, archived from the original on…. From the entry e-liquid
  • Personally, I never much cared for poo dogs of any kind, especially poodles.2007, Renee Riva, Saving Sailor, David C. Cook, page 64. From the entry poo
  • Her answer, in its entirety, was: “I personally believe that U.S.2007, Miss South Carolina Teen USA explains herselfhttps://www.today.com/news/miss-south-carolina-teen-usa-explains-herself-1C9014791…. From the entry U.S. American
  • It was one the purist forms of googanism I've witnessed personally.2007 January 5, fishinambition, “The Googan-Slam. Which one of you was it?”, in StripersOnline. From the entry googanism
  • The genuine Pastore's Pasta can only be made with the ingredients that I've personally listed.2006, Tony Lip [i.e., Frank Anthony Vallelonga Sr.]; Steven Prigge, Shut Up and Eat!: Mangia with Family Recipes and Stories from Your…. From the entry fugazi

Meaning of personally

  1. adverb In a personal manner.
  2. adverb In person.
  3. adverb Concerning oneself.

Full definition of personally

Questions about personally in a sentence

How do you use personally in a sentence?
Personally is used as an adverb. For example: “I'm really annoyed with her, personally.”
What is a short sentence with personally?
“I'm really annoyed with her, personally.”
What does personally mean?
Personally means in a personal manner.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: personally (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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