leading person

Example Sentences

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He is an absolutely leading person in that club.

From BBC • May 4, 2025

Henceforth you will be the leading person, the head of the house.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

It appears that Governor Hutchinson was a leading person in dissolving the bank, and from that time Adams was the bitter enemy of Hutchinson and the government.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

His position as the principal man of his section of the town, and his own good sense, made him the leading person in his neighborhood.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis

He was therefore apprehended, with Mr. John Oxenbridge, another leading person in the Association in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, and they were both carried prisoners to the metropolis, by an order from Archbishop Grindal.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas