characters

Example Sentences

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Then scammers typically pile on pressure, adding voices claiming to be attorneys, courtroom clerks or bank tellers -- a cast of fictitious characters in a chaotic, urgent-sounding call.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

McClarnon: There’s not a lot of Native characters on television.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Holman said he was also guided by Dame Jilly when creating different looks for her characters.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

One could easily view that as the producers’ rebuttal to malcontents eager to take them to task for making over Rice’s characters to believably meet modern times in all of their complexity.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2022

“There are something like fifty-two thousand characters in the Chinese language so you can imagine seventeen messages which were nine or ten groups long each one, what a gigantic hunt would have to go on.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield