How to Use heroine in a Sentence

heroine

noun
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  • The town remembered her as the heroine of the flood and erected a statue in her honor.
  • Our heroine has the tools: a hatchet, a knife and a flint.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The song celebrates a turning point in the life of the heroine, a 17-year-old based on the younger Ms. Keys.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • One of the guests is found dead, and our heroine must kick into sleuthing mode?
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Our heroine, Daphne Ferber, is unlucky in love and in need of a change.
    — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • When the heroine makes a wish, she's answered by a cosmic force named Star.
    — Jillian Pretzel, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The heroine is a young woman who, like Loberti, cannot see.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • This is high praise considering that our heroine spends 85% of the book in the desert and the rest at a Best Western.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The upside was getting to see avant-garde heroine Björk cruise through her soundcheck on the main stage across the grounds.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The scene fades, the credits roll, and next week our heroine will return, unchanged.
    — Mikayla Dawson, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
  • But much like its own heroine, High Desert has a way of making too much feel just right.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
  • To be a soap opera heroine is to be a virgin, especially in the Nineties.
    — Maitland Ward, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
  • If that isn’t a feminist dream, then the movement needs to make more room for heroines like you.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 26 June 2023
  • If that is not a feminist dream, then the movement needs to make more room for heroines like you.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • Lawrence starred as the heroine of the first four Hunger Games films, which are based on the young-adult dystopian book series of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • Some of opera’s greatest heroines have stories that unfold over the course of three acts.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • By the end, its 17-year-old heroine, Lea (played by a great Lily McInerny) seems lost to herself, unsure of who to be.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In this fourth novel, which takes the form of a mystery, the heroine battles, putting her life on the line, to prove that her friend’s death wasn’t a suicide.
    — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • His heroine, however, has lost a little bit of hers – by telling a lie to her best friend.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • Flash featured Sasha Calle as the heroine and the hope was to launch another DC film franchise.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Foster, on the other hand, is best in show, as the coach who serves in many ways as the emotional punching bag of our heroine.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The House of Mirth charts our heroine’s two-year descent from prettiest girl in the room to social outcast.
    — Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
  • That makes Tanya this modern-day opera’s one true tragic heroine.
    — Time, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The cover depicts a couple on a fur rug, the hero sitting on his knees, reclining, with the heroine in his lap.
    — Hazlitt, 8 Feb. 2023
  • For the ending to feel balanced, an author has to give the heroine something to counter the billionaire hero’s wealth and power.
    — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • Pickett’s heroine, 11-year-old Hannah, spends her summer tending to a flock of sheep in the mountains of Utah — alone.
    — Jackie Hoermann, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Each Asian heroine pushes to take control of her own story.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Real-life Emilys in Paris complain that the show’s heroine, clad in over-the-top couture and barely able to speak French, is giving them a bad name.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Take control of a Greek underworld heroine with new powers to unleash and new gods to gawk at.
    — PCMAG, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The heroine comes wearing her trademark side buns and carrying her trusty blaster.
    — Melissa Epifano, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023

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