principal player

Example Sentences

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Weatherly is a house-raised CBS star, having spent 13 years as a principal player on “NCIS” prior to taking a central role on “Bull.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2018

Still, it’s a hell of a what if, one made all the more intriguing by its principal player.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2018

My father excelled as a musician and was admitted to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, where he was a principal player in the orchestra.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2016

Saunders, the principal player in the Haren deal, had a solid first start for his new team, allowing two runs on nine hits in seven innings of a 3-2, 11-inning loss to Philadelphia on Thursday.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2010

The other principal player in the emergence of tectonics theory, Harry Hess, was also at Princeton at the time, and would spend the rest of his career there.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson