roles

Example Sentences

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Electricity-powered high-speed rail and electric vehicles have partly stepped into the roles of short-haul flights and gasoline cars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Previously announced to join the series - although details of their roles have been kept under wraps for now - are Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Olsen: You recently hosted the new “SNL UK” and in your monologue, you made this joke that you don’t just play intense roles, that there’s this image of you that it’s all that you do.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Others are promised roles as drivers or clerks, or that the contract will last "just one year".

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

"I'm not taking any more of those roles," said Daoud.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda