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
  • But in the sequel, the drama doesn’t just play out in the heroine’s head.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
  • 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 makes the chop, much to her BFF Mindy's dismay.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 26 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Who Smashed Codes, about a puzzle-solving heroine of the world wars.
    — Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2022
  • After all, what kind of heroine would leave before the roof caves in?
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Try not to judge its heroine too harshly at first glance.
    — Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • One of them is the film’s heroine, Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who is 12 but seems older.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • 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
  • And there, right above the fold, was a photograph of that very heroine: Frances Oldham Kelsey.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Some of opera’s greatest heroines have stories that unfold over the course of three acts.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Dunham walked us through the process of bringing the book to the screen, from casting its unique heroine to putting her own spin on the ending.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Now every nubile deb has her eye on him, and our poor heroine doesn’t seem to stand a chance.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 May 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
  • Explore the parallels between Rain and the iconic franchise heroine, Ripley and learn how filmmakers brought back a face from the past.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
  • In chapter eight, Weinstock looks at gothic heroines who have rejected the title of goth.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024

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