leading person

Example Sentences

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He is an absolutely leading person in that club.

From BBC • May 4, 2025

The close of the letter put an important question affecting gravely a leading person in the tale. . . .

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

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

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

To see a well-fed ox, signifies that you will become a leading person in your community, and receive much adulation from women.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

There were Caciques placed in the Villages, or some other leading person to hear suits and public demands.

From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Means, Philip Ainsworth