leading character
Example Sentences
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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
“Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022
“It’s really cool to be able to play a leading character like that,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022
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
This novel has as a leading character Florence Nightingale under the name of Ada Merling.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin
