How to Use superheroine in a Sentence

superheroine

noun
Definition of superheroinenext
  • Sasha Calle, who plays the caped superheroine, is introduced in the upcoming The Flash.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The Amazon superheroine returns, this time in the Cold War 1980s, in a franchise filler that falls far short of what Diana deserves.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The one thing harder to kill than an Amazon superheroine is a franchise onto which a studio has pinned its hopes.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Rob Hayes’ script centers on Gretel — hence the title’s name swap — and turns her into woke, coming-of-age superheroine who outsmarts a witch.
    — Mark Kennedy, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
  • This marks the third onscreen iteration of the caped superheroine, per The Hollywood Reporter.
    — ELLE, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The character has previously been linked to Stephanie Brown, the superheroine Spoiler.
    — NBC News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Wonder Woman, the superheroine movie some of us had been waiting for all our lives, became the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman.
    — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The three superheroines front the upcoming film The Marvels, a notable project for the Marvel mega-franchise in part thanks to its almost exclusively female leading cast.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Prada’s were especially sleek, sometimes trimmed in red, giving the models a superheroine look.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Grace, who identifies as Afro-Latina, also expressed her desire for fans who were hoping to see her iteration of the superheroine not to be discouraged.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Eight decades ago, a superheroine was born that impacted generations of not just women but generations of comic book readers.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Demna’s partnership with Kim Kardashian was actually strange and hilarious, daring a celebrity to wear clothes that expressed the public opinion of her—a superheroine?
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Even in a story of grief, trauma and one conflicted superheroine coming to terms with wrenching personal loss, those terms can always be reset for the promise of another reunion, another season, another spinoff.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Assuming several different identities, at times something of a compassionate superheroine, Horacia bides her time among the lower depths, befriending squatters and street people.
    — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • In Mexico – which has seen several recent feminist uprisings against rape and other forms of gender violence – the government recently created a coronavirus-fighting superheroine named Susana Distancia.
    — Vinodh Venkatesh, The Conversation, 12 July 2021

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