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
Her death leaves Olivia de Havilland as the only principal player still alive.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2012
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
