heroines

Example Sentences

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Few heroines of English literature have as distinct a voice as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

He’s a little too awful for me, but I do think we could use less sanitized heroes and heroines in modern love stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

She has made images of performers such as Charles Dance and Roger Daltrey and Second World War heroines such as Noor Inayat Khan and Violette Szabo.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

George Cukor’s black-and-white vision traipses its heroines through dress fittings, manicures and facials, day drinking and backstabbing all the way, save for an interruption by a Technicolor fashion show.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier