leading character
Example Sentences
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The set is the centerpiece of a movie studio that is itself a leading character in Hollywood lore.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025
And they have turned Mr. Reddé into a leading character of French demonstrations, a kind of “Where’s Waldo?” who invariably appears alongside unionists blowing foghorns and battalions of armor-clad riot police.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023
“It’s really cool to be able to play a leading character like that,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022
But the Jackson hearings feature a new leading character: Janice Rogers Brown, a former judge on the federal appeals court in Washington where Jackson now sits.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2022
Protagonist, prō-tag′on-ist, n. a leading character, esp. in a play.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
