characters

Example Sentences

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She’s not as concerned with settling differences as with understanding the thoughts and emotions animating the clashes of her divergent characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

The show will return to HBO on Sunday, four years after the last instalment, and finds its main characters having evolved from being troubled teens to equally troubled twenty-somethings.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

But the often-loathsome characters in this irresistible eight-part series—which portrays data-mining the way “Dr. Strangelove” portrayed the atomic bomb—are weak, damaged, in the wrong jobs, or the wrong marriages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Until this moment, both the audience and the characters in the film understand Emma to be a funny, easygoing young woman.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

In the mid-1960s, he turned his attention to writing books and achieved tremendous success with his creation of one of the most beloved characters in modern adventure fiction.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler