principal character
Example Sentences
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It’s also in this house where Mario Conde, the principal character of Padura’s work, was born.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Its principal character, non-Jewish, is a magazine writer, who is instructed to approach the whole issue, or problem, from a new angle.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
Josephus is a principal character in the film's Roman Empire segment.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2022
Michael Cunningham, who came here in connection with his novel “The Hours,” in which Virginia Woolf is a principal character, said that Woolf’s house looks like a graduate student’s apartment compared with her sister’s home.
From New York Times • May 9, 2017
Rush, the principal character in a popular folk-lore story translated from the German.
From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of