leading person
Example Sentences
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He is an absolutely leading person in that club.
From BBC • May 4, 2025
He was therefore apprehended, with Mr. John Oxenbridge, another leading person in the Association in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, and they were both carried prisoners to the metropolis, by an order from Archbishop Grindal.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas
His position as the principal man of his section of the town, and his own good sense, made him the leading person in his neighborhood.
From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis
"As living in the same parish, you know, and being, perhaps—" the leading person in it, and the one who naturally rules the others.
From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony
Henceforth you will be the leading person, the head of the house.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
