heroine
Example Sentences
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But you never believe for a minute that Cameron would make his heroine do anything that awful.
From Los Angeles Times
As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.
It contains lots of instances of its heroine stopping to wonder what everything means, which is another way of saying it’s ponderous and pretentious.
This jukebox musical imagines with unstinting originality a scenario in which the doomed heroine of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” doesn’t die at the end of the play.
From Los Angeles Times
Point being, Black wrote Charly Baltimore as a heroine unlike most of the ones seen previously — a sweet, happy schoolteacher who happened to have a pragmatic world-class killer sleeping inside her.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
