leading character
Example Sentences
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“The Great Jheri Curl Debate” presented a new challenge: writing a leading character outside her own race.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2022
“It was a very sweet leading character to play, because the character doesn’t know what’s going on and I didn’t either.”
From Washington Post • May 6, 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
Sparks fly during Christmastime when a romance novelist meets a handsome man who looks like the leading character in her books.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2020
Some copies of the first edition misprint Macheath, the name of the leading character in Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera.”
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
