How to Use protagonist in a Sentence

protagonist

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  • She was a leading protagonist in the civil rights movement.
  • Milton Friedman is usually cited as the leading American protagonist of monetarism.
  • And that's what Maya as a protagonist in the book goes through as well.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • And how does the movie end for our two protagonists, Lucy and Summer?
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But by the end of the film, our intrepid protagonist gains a new outlook on things.
    — Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • In the trailer, Ichiban, the floofy-haired protagonist of Like a Dragon, has washed up on a beach butt-ass-naked.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2023
  • The new game will feature a playable female protagonist for the first time.
    — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Killjoy's vengeful protagonists gave me a lot of new ideas about how to kill men.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 29 May 2023
  • The protagonist in this stage play, of course, is the traveler.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • This Cold War mystery was now nearly 40 years in the past, but most of the protagonists still lived.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The protagonist in this movie’s name is Noelle, but so is her on-again, off-again boyfriend’s new girlfriend.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
  • But there is one man who has emerged as the campaign’s chief protagonist.
    — Claire Moses, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • One of them, Paul (the Badger) Brennan, emerged as the film’s protagonist.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The narrative and its chief protagonist were harder to find in the series between the Celtics and the Mavs.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • The human drama of the protagonists, what brought them to trial in the first place, should constitute the essence of the action.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • That's a good quality in an adult and in a protagonist.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Those aspects linked to the protagonist Maomao in my view.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But, in the early 2000s, most protagonists in this genre were white women.
    — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
  • It was set in jail and one of her protagonists had these impulses too.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The book spends scant time on the protagonist’s parents, while the show embraces their pursuit of the American Dream.
    — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • But the protagonist of the film is his date Margot, a last-minute addition to the meal who’s oblivious to the norms of a restaurant like this.
    — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Some beats opt to teach rather than explore, and most of the stories center white protagonists.
    — Mike Scalise, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
  • The protagonist is Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a white shoe Biloxi law firm who fakes his own death in a burning car.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But the creators have something else in mind for their protagonist.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • Our protagonist downs another shot, shakes her shiny blonde hair loose and walks right up to him.
    — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
  • So to have Yasuda pen the protagonist’s G-Self mobile suit was and still is great.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The protagonist can’t seem to get past the disappointment.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Six of the film’s main protagonists were present, treating the crowd on the Croisette to a live street theater performance during their stay in Cannes.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 21 May 2024
  • Despite its flashy genre mash-up, Emilia Pérez is stuck with a coarse, unappealing protagonist.
    — Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Like its protagonist, Train Dreams drifts along like a simple bowl floating downstream, an offhand image that itself appears during a late flashback.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025

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