characters

Example Sentences

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The singer said she had "always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I've adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Newson’s plot and characters serve the novel’s thesis well.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Whether in the films beloved by the Wu-Tang or the animated sagas Megan favors, characters battle not simply for survival but to achieve mastery.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

Mr. Talty presents characters worthy of our interest, but he tends to flatten them into stock types.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

The goal of a leitmotif is to help the listener identify the main characters and give each a very short musical pattern, so that every time their name is mentioned, someone plays that pattern.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin