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
“The Great Jheri Curl Debate” presented a new challenge: writing a leading character outside her own race.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 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
Its leading character is a certain genial and eccentric Lord Peter Wimsey, younger brother of the Duke of Denver, who has taken up amateur detecting as a pastime.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
The leading character in this play, a noble old Roman, is quite an original creation.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various