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
You can’t help rooting for Colleen Hoover heroines, bless their bruised hearts.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Generations of readers have turned its eponymous heroines into cult figures, but the March sisters are more than stereotypes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
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
The heroes and heroines of the early stories face disaster.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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